Bob Gibson and Bob Camp, later known professionally as Hamilton Camp, each built distinct solo careers. Gibson emerged as a key figure in the folk revival by steering traditional material toward more inventive arrangements and left a lasting mark on artists including Roger McGuinn. Camp, who adopted the name Hamilton Camp following his partnership with Gibson and issued several solo releases under that name, wrote the song “Pride of Man,” later given an electric folk-rock reading by Quicksilver Messenger Service.
During the early 1960s the pair formed a duo that produced a single album, At the Gate of Horn (1961, Elektra), among the more fondly recalled folk records of its era. McGuinn, present in the audience for the album’s recording, later chose the LP for MOJO magazine’s “Last Night a Record Changed My Life” feature, citing its harmonies and Gibson’s 12-string guitar playing. The set nevertheless registers today as a fairly ordinary artifact of the hootenanny period, and Camp himself would later pursue more distinctive solo work.
The MOJO piece noted that Gibson and Camp “never got along entirely well”; their collaboration, orchestrated by manager Albert Grossman, proved brief and yielded only that one 1960s release.
