Kell Street Camp Meeting - Dinner And Joy On the Ground (1971 Paula)

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The Kell Street Camp Meeting were a “Christian Revival” concept more than an actual group that featured Mouse & The Traps leader Ronny “Mouse” Weiss (lead guitar).

The musicians on this album also included Randy Fouts (piano-autoharp), Dave Floyd (bass), Paul Liem (drums), Uncle Snork (rhythm guitar-lead vocals), Bobby Tuttle (steel guitar), A.C. Green (harmonica), Perry Buck Stewart (mouth harp), Walt Robertson (tuning fork) and backed by a choir that included John Bass, Jim Batts, Yvonne Gary, Esther Broughton and others.

The album also featured a live audience who went by the name of Kell Street Joy Freek Audience that gave the impression of a “live” revival gathering. The album has that late sixties gospel feel and musically the group reminds me a lot of the Band. Great versions of a few standards such as “Farther Along”, “Great Speckled Bird” and “Will The Circle Be Unbroken” (Jack Dominilla)

According to the album’s liner notes:

“The Kell Street Joy Freeks don’t hardly exist, mostly. I mean we’re not a rock group that decided to do a hymn album for the bread. At first, there were two of us, me and Jim Batts, and we liked hymn, and some of our friends did, so they joined us, and after a while there were 30 of us, singing hymns in the living room.

So we hooked up with 10 or so other friends and went and did this album in Tyler, Texas. And there were Methodists there, and Catholics, Church Of Christ, Assembly Of God, Baptists, on like that, and atheists, and radical-middle-of-the-road agnostics, all housed in bodies of various hues.

We all got different things out of doing this album. Some of us did it for the music, and some for Jesus. All of us did it for the Joy in coming together, and we’re putting our album out to pass on our Joy, because Joy dies if you keep it to yourself.

So now some of us are talking about trucking out on the road with some friends. Maybe we’ll see you there.”

Peace, Children of Light
Uncle Snork

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