Artist: Kasey Chambers Genre(s):
Rock: Folk-Rock
Rock
Discography:
The Captain Year: 2005
Tracks: 12
Wayward Angel Year: 2004
Tracks: 14
Barricades and Brickwalls Year:
Tracks: 13
In 2000, Kasey Chambers emerged as Australia's low gear successful country-to-rock crosswalk female singer. It was just the modish chapter in a singular 25-year life sentence journey. In 1976, hoping to earn a living hunting foxes, Bill and Diane Chambers took their two-year-old horse logos Nash and newborn girl Kasey into the one C,000 square mile (260,000 square km) sparsely vegetated and mostly flat tableland called the Nullarbor Plain. The family would spend seven or ashcan School months of the class on the Nullarbor, resupplying themselves from the world's longest stretch out of straight railroad raceway, 330 miles (530 km), running through the Nullarbor. The catch one's breath of the year, the hot months, the syndicate fagged at a modest south Australian fishing village. Each nox out on the Nullarbor, after a day's hunting, the fellowship would camp in a different spot on that brobdingnagian Australian landmark and, grabbing his guitar, Bill Chambers and his wife passed on their love life of land music, by the glow of the campfire, under the stars. This is how Kasey fagged the low 9 age of her life sentence.
In 1986, the family line returned to "civilisation" so that Bill and Diane could piece up off-and-on music careers. First, Kasey linked them as atomic number 82 vocalist, then brother Nash, and they became known as the Dead Ringer Band. By 1992, the family had suit full-time musicians, playing to city audiences as well as drift second extinct into the countryside, pulling a small prevue slow their Toyota Land Cruiser. During the '90s, the Dead Ringer Band members, known as performers of timber nation music, released sevener CDs and together with earned two ARIAs (Aussie Grammys) and vII Gold Guitars at the annual Australian Country Music Awards in Tamworth. Kasey was the face of the new coevals in Australian country. She appeared at Tamworth polished as a spice girl, wearing a nose tintinnabulation, and posed nude for a country music magazine (walking down pat the streets of a deserted land town with crony Nash).
In 1998, Chambers' earth was sour top side down with the legal separation of her parents, with mother Diane choosing to go and unrecorded in remote Norfolk Island, deuce and a half hours by planing machine off the Australian coast. Chambers started putting her feelings into songs, and o'er a few weeks during July and August 1998, Kasey recorded her solo album
The Captain on Norfolk Island. With brother Nash performing as producer, Kasey and her musicians set up in an honest-to-goodness homestead on the island and practically recorded the record album springy. Father Bill was on hand to play guitar. Country legends Buddy and Julie Miller added their voices and guitar to four tracks afterward in Nashville.
Released in May 1999, the record album
The Captain ab initio won Kasey the 1999 ARIA awarding for Best Country Album and, at the 2000 awards, earned her Best Female Artist. With double-platinum gross sales at home base in Australia, Kasey spent the latter portion of 2000 following up enthusiastic reviews for her record album internationally. She likewise dog-tired time touring the U.S. with Lucinda Williams and playing gigs in her native land with Emmylou Harris. She was in the studio as advantageously; with her crony Nash at the production table once over again, Chambers delivered some other sonic stunner with 2002's
Barricades & Brickwalls. The record album was a multi-platinum success in Australia and significantly raised her profile in the United States, earning her enthusiastic reviews and practically better sales than
The Captain.
Afterward a two-year layoff, during which Chambers and her husband, Aussie singer/songwriter Shane Nicholson, had a baby, she released her third solo disc,
Contrary Angel, in the fall of 2004. The 14-song set gave Chambers her number one number 1 record album in Australia. Two eld later, Chambers' vocal "The Hard Way" was featured in an episode of the ABC hazard dramatic event
Confused.
Carnival, released in September 2006, included collaborations with Tim Rogers of You Am I and Powderfinger's Bernard Fanning.
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