Caamp

By and by

Caamp, stylized CAAMP, began as a project between the childhood friends Taylor Meier and Evan Westfall, who met at a summer camp in middle school and graduated from Upper Arlington High School, near Columbus, in 2012. Wikipedia and Westfall place them in Upper Arlington; the Daily Texan, Riff and Atwood say Athens, Ohio, where Meier attended Ohio University and from 2013 played coffee shops. Meier's voice is deep and raspy, compared to Ray LaMontagne by the Daily Texan. The self-titled debut (2016, Square Roots Records) was recorded by the two founders in an attic, according to the Daily Texan, though a podcast summary says in a Ford dealership; "Vagabond" (2016) later went Gold. Matt Vinson joined on bass in 2017. Boys came in two parts in 2018, in March and July, because they wanted to release little packets of music enough to listen to in a sitting.

By & By appeared on Mom + Pop in summer 2019 and topped the Heatseekers chart without reaching the Billboard 200. They played Mo Pop in Detroit and Austin City Limits that year, and on June 30, 2020 performed "Wunderbar" on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Lavender Days (June 24, 2022) reached 83 on the Billboard 200 and "Believe", a number one on adult alternative radio, drew a Jimmy Kimmel Live! appearance; they were nominated for duo or group of the year at the 2023 Americana Honors. Copper Changes Color (June 2025) reached 176, "Let Things Go" and "Mistakes" were number ones on Adult Alternative Airplay, and "And It's Gone" is the main title theme of Apple TV+'s Stick. "Apple Tree Blues" was on Barack Obama's summer playlist, and the NPR Tiny Desk concert is dated March 19, 2026.

Westfall has said the band plays without a set list. They sold out Nationwide Arena in Columbus in October 2022, played two nights at Red Rocks, Radio City Music Hall in September 2025 and MGM Music Hall in Boston on June 14, 2025, headlined Under the Big Sky in 2023, and toured the UK and Ireland in 2025.