Music Review: Ted Russell Kamp - Poor Man’s Paradise (Blogcritics.org)

There’s a wink and a smile behind just about all these songs — a fizzy tonic for hard times. Ted Russell Kamp’s loose-jointed, sunny-dispositioned Southern rock/country sound has a down-home, slightly psychedelic feel. Even a song with a melancholy touch, like “Let the Rain Fall Down,” gets livened up — in that case with perky brass (played by Kamp, a multi-instrumentalist, and the bass …