"Whether it's with a guitar, a pen & piece of
paper or a camera, I just like telling stories."
- STACY DEAN
"Whether it's with a guitar, a pen & piece of
paper or a camera, I just have to tell stories."
- STACY DEAN
"Whether it's with a guitar, a pen & piece of
paper or a camera, I just have to tell stories."
- STACY DEAN
"Whether it's with a guitar, a pen & piece of
paper or a camera, I just have to tell stories."
- STACY DEAN
BOOKS
"The writing is flawless." - WRITER'S DIGEST
The Mockingbird Son
Milo is a mockingbird in Fran Nantucket's garden and being a mockingbird isn't at all bad. But he doesn't want to just mock other birds, he wants to sing his own song. Be himself. Be different from dad. When his friends don't understand and snicker and tease, Milo learns the valuable lesson of just being himself. "For there's only you and you are by far the most perfectly perfect you...just as you are.
"Be yourself. No one can tell you you're doing it wrong."
- Charles Schulz
COTTONWOOD
In West Texas in the summer of 1937, COTTONWOOD tells the story of two families thrown together by tragedy and the bounds of racial injustice.
Rube Whitlock is faced with raising his two young sons after the death of his infant daughter leaves his wife mentally incapacitated with grief and unable to care for them. Overwhelmed with the responsibility, Rube hires Esther, a local black woman whose husband- in an attempt to establish himself and his farm as competitive cotton producers- has just purchased his second mule and ignited a stirring of dissonance and contempt within the usually quiet community. As Esther's natural maternal presence begins to fill voids in the Whitlock house and racially charged animosity percolates in the dim-lit bars and shacks just beneath the community's surface, Rube is forced to choose between the boundaries set by the laws he has sworn to uphold and the boundaries set by the moral convictions of the human heart.
Amidst painful pasts beginning to resurface and new secrets freshly buried, it would take a "knobby-kneed buckskin" mule, a cheap pocket knife and a lifeless COTTONWOOD tree to form a lasting friendship that would gray the stark lines between black and white and begin the delicate mending of family ties in the tender heart of a young boy.
"Campbell clearly loves this part of the country and writes its dialogue beautifully." - AMERICAN SONGWRITER
RAMBLING HEART
RAMBLING HEART takes you from the deserts of the southwest to the coal mines of Appalachia, to the front seat of a small town police car with a collection of stories, essays, journal entries, and lyrics that paint a broad stroke of a nomadic life amidst America's blue collar landscape. Sugar Boy finds a young boy exasperated with the rantings of his demented and pining grandfather. Train Not Running, Bonny Blue follows an out of work coal miner into the mountains of Virginia to poach ginseng. Palomino tells of a retired Mexican jockey who gambles his horse in a Texas bordertown card game, while Thawing of a Reliable Man reveals a young couple struggling to survive, each forced to make an ultimate sacrifice. In Stagecoach 105 and Redbird, Campbell gives a glimpse into his life as a police officer and as a boy confronted with the convictions of aimlessly taking life under the guise of hunting.
Told in a unique gathering of fiction prose, free form writings, and lyrics, RAMBLING HEART ambles along conjuring up recollections of early Sam Shepard and Charles Portis.
