Michael "Mike" Campbell (born August 7, 1985) is an American

guitarist A guitarist (or a guitar player) is a person who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of guitar family instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselve ...

and

bassist A bassist (also known as a bass player or bass guitarist) is a musician who plays a bass instrument such as a double bass (upright bass, contrabass, wood bass), bass guitar (electric bass, acoustic bass), keyboard bass (synth bass) or a low br ...

, from

Huntington Station, New York Huntington Station is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the Town of Huntington in Suffolk County, on Long Island, in New York, in the United States. The population was reported as 34,878 with the 2020 census. It is considered par ...

, best known for his work with

Laura Stevenson Laura Anne Stevenson (born April 25, 1984) is an American singer-songwriter from Long Island, New York, and formerly a keyboard player for the musical collective Bomb the Music Industry! Life and career Early life Stevenson was raised in Nas ...

, and

Latterman Latterman is an American semi-active four-piece punk rock band from Huntington, New York, United States. Phil Douglas and Mattie Jo Canino respectively would go on to form the equally acclaimed Iron Chic and RVIVR. Canino, Douglas and Schramm ...

Professional background

;Latterman While attending Walt Whitman High School in

, Campbell joined

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band

, led by classmates Phil Douglas and Matt Canino. He recorded and performed as a guitarist in Latterman until shortly before they disbanded in 2007. After almost four years apart, Latterman briefly reunited with Campbell on guitar, for a series of New York-area concerts in December 2011, followed by a full European tour in the summer of 2012, and an appearance at

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in Gainesville, Florida in October 2012. ;Laura Stevenson In the summer of 2007, just after leaving Latterman, Campbell met

, and began performing as the bass player for Laura Stevenson and the Cans. Stevenson has credited Campbell as the inspiration for one of her earliest songs, "A Shine to It", and also has cited him as the one who encouraged her to record her first album, ''A Record''. They got married in 2016 and have one child together.

Discography

References

1985 births Living people American rock guitarists American male bass guitarists People from Huntington Station, New York Guitarists from New York (state) 21st-century American bass guitarists 21st-century American male musicians {{US-bass-guitarist-stub