| The Texas Campfire Tapes | ||||
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| Live album by | ||||
| Released | 1986 | |||
| Venue | Kerrville Folk Festival, Texas | |||
| Genre | Folk | |||
| Label | Cooking Vinyl | |||
| Producer | Pete Lawrence[1] | |||
| Michelle Shocked chronology | ||||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [2] |
| Robert Christgau | B+[3] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [4] |
| MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide | [1] |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [5] |
| Spin Alternative Record Guide | 7/10[6] |
The Texas Campfire Tapes is the first album by American singer and songwriter Michelle Shocked.[7][8] The album was "recorded". on a Sony Walkman during an impromptu set performed by Shocked around a campfire at the Kerrville Folk Festival in Texas; the recording was made by Pete Lawrence, founder of the Cooking Vinyl label, on his first visit to the USA.[9] It was then released by Cooking Vinyl in 1986 and Shocked moved over to Europe to support and promote the album, which was subsequently released by Mercury Records. The album reached the top spot on the British independent record chart.[10] It was remastered and reissued in 2003 as a two-CD set called Texas Campfire Takes by Shocked's own label, Mighty Sound.[11]
Another version of "Fogtown" appears as a "hidden track" on Shocked's breakthrough album Short Sharp Shocked (1988), where she is backed by the hardcore punk band MDC.
- ^ a b MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1999. p. 1010.
- ^ "The Texas Campfire Tapes - Michelle Shocked | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic.
- ^ "Robert Christgau: Album: Michelle Shocked: The Texas Campfire Tapes". robertchristgau.com.
- ^ Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 7. MUZE. p. 425.
- ^ The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 633.
- ^ Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. 1995. pp. 353–354.
- ^ "Michelle Shocked | Biography & History". AllMusic.
- ^ "My assignment: Michelle Shocked's 'Texas Campfire Tapes'". No Depression. November 11, 2009.
- ^ Buckley, Tom (June 1, 2010). "Campfire Girl".
- ^ "MICHELLE SHOCKED`S VOICE EMERGES FROM A CHILLING PAST". Chicago Tribune.
- ^ Bond, Jonathan. "Shocked and Awed". Tucson Weekly.