Ted Hammig and the Campaign

One Liner: Like a college town bar band broke loose to bring old school rock and roll back
Wikipedia Genre: No Wikipedia, but this is classic rock and roll
Home: Fayetteville, AR

Poster Position: Bottom Quarter - Line 26
Day: Saturday
Weekend Two Only.

Tito's Tent at 1:00.

Thoughts: Aaaaaand the award for the worst band name on the poster goes to .....

Very strange, hitting play on the first song makes me feel like I am listening to one of those Yacht Rock playlists where they try to go crazy deep into the genre and you are hearing songs for the first time (when your goal in clicking on that playlist was to hear Steely Dan and Michael McDonald classics).  According to the Fayetteville Flyer website, Fayetteville musicians such as these fellows are having a HUGE moment right now.  Definitely, as indicated by this band being the absolute last one on the poster for Saturday.

The band started up right at the worst possible time - March 2020.  They were doing masked shows with the social distance thing going on, so they were definitely stubborn about it all.  Ted says that he had been writing songs for a long time but couldn't find people to play with him, so he put out a solo album in high school where he played all the instruments himself.  he also says that they play rock and roll with emphasis on the roll.  Ugh.  But he also says that this is intended to be classic rock and roll.  I agree.

Also, if you have never been to Fayetteville, it is dope.  I was really hoping that the boy would end up there for college, but he picked Knoxville instead.  But it is a great college town with a lot of cool character and outdoors stuff.  I dug it.

Two albums - 2022's Out of Context and 2024's Shouting in Small Rooms.  Two songs in their catalog have more than 10k streams.  Several songs on the albums have no recorded streams.  But honestly some of these tunes are cool.  "Drive With Me" comes on like some long-lost Stones track being played by a Black Crowes cover band.  But "Give Me a Call" is the top streamer, and from the new album.  12k streams.

You hear that yacht rock flavor I mentioned?  The problem with choosing to go see these guys is that their show will likely be at noon on Saturday.  "Walk Away" has a little reggae-ness and sounds like it was maybe an early track from when they were just learning.

Probably not.