MUSIC MECCA INTERVIEW: Folk Songwriter and Performance Artist Kamara Thomas Talks Upcoming Album “Tularosa”… MORE HERE
WIDE OPEN COUNTRY
March, 2022
Kamara Thomas’ ‘Tularosa’ is a gripping story of the American West… MORE…
INDYWEEK
“For a long time, I couldn’t accept that it was going to be harder for me, as a woman of color, to have people hear my country songs,” says Kamara Thomas, whose cosmic Americana tunes are as powerful and ambitious as the Country Soul Songbook project she now spearheads. A love letter to both her community and the genre on which she was raised… “ MORE…
PASTE MAGAZINE
"Born in Chicago to a hippie-turned-born-again mother who only permitted her to listen to country/western out of the world of popular music, Kamara Thomas is a singer, songwriter and dramatist that logged time in Los Angeles and New York City. In the latter, Thomas honed her craft playing in power trio Earl Greyhound and twangy side project the Ghost Gamblers. (She also served as the driving force behind the weekly Honky-Tonk Happy Hour series at the Living Room on the Lower East Side.) Performing in the vicinity of her current Durham home, Thomas is working on her successfully crowdfunded debut Tularosa: An American Dreamtime, which explores the Mythic West through a song cycle about a forsaken plot of New Mexico land. It will be a culmination of the first august stage of a storytelling career from the little girl who once eagerly soaked up the voices of Dolly, Emmylou, Loretta Lynn and the 1970s outlaws."
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DURHAM MAGAZINE - Women's Issue
"As a singer/songwriter/sometimes playwright, Kamara has found her place here." MORE...
NEWS & OBSERVER (Raleigh) - Kamara Thomas' Creativity Flows in Durham
Count Kamara Thomas as one of the many ex-New Yorkers who couldn’t take the crampedness of the Big Apple and fled to North Carolina. MORE...
INDYWEEK - The Pull of the Earth: Former Brooklyn rocker Kamara Thomas pursues a singer-songwriter future in Durham
... She's shedding the high-octane drive of her former band, Earl Greyhound. Thomas' new album, Earth Hero, travels in gently melancholic, acoustic-based Americana and allegorical storytelling. Yet this is no reinvention, Thomas assures: Her natural inclination has always been toward singer-songwriter and country forms. MORE...
BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC (BAM)
"Channeling dusty Americana, rootsy folk, and classic rock à la Neil Young, Kamara Thomas (singer and bassist for the acclaimed hard rock band Earl Greyhound) spins hazy narrative paeans to America’s epic landscape and mythic past. Her bewitching live performance incorporates elements of Native American shamanism, trance-inducing jams, and spellbinding stories of the fabled Old West."
Photo by Derrick Beasley
Photo by Derrick Beasley
Photo by Derrick Beasley
Photo by Derrick Beasley
Photo by Derrick Beasley
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