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She was impressed that the album was recorded around an actual campfire in Ireland saying "Rend Collective pushed artistic boundaries through their acoustic live recording." [1] She reports that some of the songs have a very upbeat Irish foot stomping feel, while others still retain the Irish feel but slow down to a meditative tempo. [1]
Camp songs or campfire songs are a category of folk music traditionally sung around a campfire for entertainment. Since the advent of summer camp as an activity for children, these songs have been identified with children's songs, although they may originate from earlier traditions of songs popular with adults.
The tracks on Camp Favorites are traditional songs that children might sing at summer camp, and the record sleeve is illustrated with a group of youngsters singing around a campfire. Camp Favorites was unknown among Phil Ochs fans until 2000, when David Cohen prepared his comprehensive catalog of Ochs' works ( Phil Ochs: A Bio-Bibliography ...
To promote the release of Sing Around the Campfire and "Songs for Round the Campfire", Sharon, Lois and Bram embarked on a short and simple summer-tour of the United States and Canada. The concerts had a "summertime, sit-around-on-the-back-porch kind of atmosphere.".
Indicating in a four star review from CCM Magazine, Matt Conner says, "the band brings significant joy through their yuletide inventions". [2] Steve Leggett, reviewing the album for AllMusic, writes, "This Christmas album, recorded live around a campfire, is an acoustic, spontaneous affair, very organic in feel, and full of communal spiritual joy."
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The album comprises five individual songs played back to back and recorded in one take. Although it was the middle of November and thus very cold, the recording was made outside on a screen porch in Maryland, using three Sony MiniDisc players with Sony ECM-MS907 microphones placed strategically around the band.
A video of the song, directed by David Hogan and depicting the band camping in a forest at night, has aired on The Nashville Network, CMT and Great American Country. It is not the original video, however. The original video, released in 1984, featured partial nudity and what writer Edward Morris described as a "bizarre plot".