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photo by Sept 28, '09 - My song 32 Years is featured on the North by East West Mixtape Podcast #22. This is a great blog, definitely worth checking out!
Sept 2009 - My song This Poetry is named to "New Century's Top 40 Heatseeker Tracks".
Sept 2009 - Mark Boutros's review of Indie Music Night in Princeton, New Jersey
"... an unexpected, pleasant surprise... subtle but captivating..."
April 2009 - Oh Heart, Oh Highway reaches #1 on the Galaxie Folk/Roots Chart!
Amy Campbell's Oh Heart, Oh Highway, (#1 this month) serves up a multi-media delight... a collection of excellent songs, warm, moving and poetic.
April 2009 - Thursday Blend
"Tiiu and Amy Campbell's Excellent Ottawa Valley Tour".
February 2009 - Feature Interview: The Movements.com
Read the full text here.
January 2009 - Folk and Acoustic Music Exchange review
"It is intense, it is beautiful, it is heartrending and uplifting... my pick for Album of the Year..."
December 2008 - We ♥ Music Podcast
Feature interview - hear it here
December 17, 2008 - NOW Magazine
"Campbell’s voice is warm and inviting, her guitar-playing deft and her lyrics emotionally naked."
November 2008 - Xtra profile and review of Oh Heart, Oh Highway
"... a delicately woven tapestry..."
"... reminiscent of crossover folkie Shawn Colvin..."
"... pulls the listener immediately into her story..."
"...
both accessible and compelling..."
October 23, 2008 - The Coast
"...a complex cross-country journey."
August 2008 - Capitol Xtra
"... Yellow Door demonstrates that if Campbell’s style has changed at all, it’s only evolved to become more decisive with bolder guitar compositions and unapologetic lyrics..."
January 2005 - Empowerment4Women Magazine.
"...Architecture is evidence of an artist greatly attuned to her thoughts, feelings, and experiences, and incredibly astute at translating herself into her music...”
"...Campbell seems poised to breathe through and, as one reviewer has boldly predicted, "inherit Joni Mitchell's place as Canada's quintessential female singer-songwriter." She is currently compiling songs for her first full-length studio album... undoubtably it will be as insightful and emotionally forceful as Live, moving Campbell one step closer to proving that reviewer correct..."
December 2004/January 2005 - Exclaim! review of The Halifax Pop Explosion.
"...One of Halifax's most prominent folkies at the moment, Amy Campbell certainly has a beautiful way with a guitar. She needn't have sung a note, as her graceful Joni Mitchell-esque playing absolutely hypnotizes ... Campbell sings a collection of sad relationship tunes in a voice one could fall in love with..."
March 29, 2005 - Rocketgirls.net
Feature Interview - Amy Campbell Takes Over The World
January 28, 2005 - The Coast
Songs for a Winter's Night is a "Sure Thing"
December 2004 - Amy Campbell, Rose Cousins and BattleAxe Folk are profiled on CBC Moncton's Mainstreet.
"...Amy and Rose have realized that the pure creation of song is priceless, and have refused to place a corporate price tag on their work. They've found a way around it that sort of redefines how money and music work together, mostly through the promotion of their music along with raising awareness of social issues..."
September 2004 - "Architecture" is reviewed in Herizons
“...Simply put, Campbell is well poised to one day inherit Joni Mitchell’s place as Canada’s quintessential female singer-songwriter...”
September 2004 - "Architecture" is reviewed in Exclaim!
"...the result demonstrates the real presence a solo performer can provide... Like a purging for the emotionally distraught...”
March 10, 2004 - Amy Campbell is Estrogen Nation's artist of the month
"...She writes about the regrets and hopes that we experience in all our relationships, using great metaphors and even greater insight. You can’t help but see the good, the bad, and sometimes embarrassing, about yourself in this music..."
January 12 , 2004 - RisMixLive - Whitby, ON
...every song is vividly painted and unrelentingly poignant in execution...
January 8 , 2004 - Eye Weekly - Toronto
From John Sakamoto's Anti-Hit List
6. AMY CAMPBELL, "The Architecture": ...A founding member of the BattleAxe Folk collective, this Newfoundland native may sound like a cross between Ani DiFranco and The Indigo Girls, but there's a sly dynamic at work here - namely a forthright admission of emotional detachment - that makes this bout of quiet deliberation something more than the sum of its influences.
November 27 , 2003 - HFX (Daily News Entertainment Supplement)
HFX hops on board for Architecture's release.
"...Though
she is a classically-trained pianist, Campbell accompanies herself on
acoustic guitar, using a variety of alternate tunings. She's a beautiful
singer, with a rich and musical voice, with echoes of artists like Ani
DiFranco and Joni Mitchell......"
–Sandy MacDonald
November 27 , 2003 - The Chronicle-Herald (Halifax)
More praise for Architecture.
"...Listening
to Amy Campbell's emotionally naked compositions is like reading someone's
diary, full of open confessions of unrequited love, fierce longing and
the ache of old regrets....."
–Stephen Cook
November 20, 2003 - The Coast (Halifax)
Amy Campbell's impending release Architecture is profiled.
"...A
tight seven song package, Architecture does transport you. Anyone who's
ever been to a Campbell concert... will instantly recognize the awkwardly
comfortable dialogue, melodically and rhythmically intriguing vocals
and confident, finger-picked guitar playing...."
–Chuck Teed
September 4, 2003 - The Coast (Halifax)
Amy Campbell (along with some pals) get props in The Coast's annual Back To School Special
"...If
you like acoustic singer-songwriters like Ron Sexsmith and Ani Difranco...
names to watch for [are] Amelia Curran, Al Tuck, Rose Cousins and Amy
Campbell..."
–Chuck Teed & Tara Thorne
March 7, 2003 - The Daily News (Halifax)
Amy Campbell and BattleAxe Folk are profiled in Halifax's Daily News
"...Amy
Campbell... the driving force behind the idea to bring together like-minded
women artists into a loose collective..."
–Sean Flinn
March 6, 2003 - The Coast (Halifax)
Amy Campbell is named Favorite Solo Performer (female) in the Reverb Readers Poll
"...she's a skillful dispenser of the finest raw, emotional, guitar-led songs..."
–Lezlie Lowe
March 3, 2003 - Atlantic Zone
Amy Campbell visits Carla's Corner for an interview
"...She's funny, articulate and informed. But best of all, she puts her words
into action..."
–Carla Gillis
February 20,2003 - The Chronicle-Herald (Halifax)
"...music that reaches into human experience and comes back with stories written from the soul..."