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” finds 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 lyric, RAMBLING HEART ambles along conjuring up recollections of early Sam Shepard and Charles Portis.
