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Chanteuse Country / Folk Australienne née le
4
Juin 1976 à Mount Gambier (South Australia).
A
genre-defying singer and songwriter whose music encompasses the quietude of
folk, the honesty of country, the edgy emotions of the blues, and the fearless
spirit of rock & roll, Kasey Chambers has become one of the most popular and
acclaimed artists of her generation in her native Australia while winning a
devoted cult following in the rest of the world. Blessed with a voice that
suggests an Antipodean cross between Emmylou
Harris and Lucinda Williams (both
of whom are fans), Chambers was born living off the land with her family on
Southern Australia's Nullabor Plain, while making occasional stops at the
fishing village of Southend. Chambers learned
about country and folk music from her parents, who usually played and sang songs
in the evening. When Kasey was
ten years old, she joined the family band led by her father Bill
Chambers, the
Dead Ringer Band, which also featured her mother Diane and
brother Nash.
In the '90s, the
Dead Ringer Band became one of Australia's leading country acts, but Kasey had
an individual spirit and ideas of her own. When her parents' divorce split up the
Dead Ringer Band, Kaseypoured
her feelings into a set of songs that would become her solo debut, 1999's The
Captain. Produced by Nash
Chambers, the album was a critical and commercial success, winning the
Australian Record Industry Association's Best Country Album prize in 2000. Her
second LP, 2001's Barricades
& Brickwalls, was another ARIA winner, taking prizes for Album of the Year,
Best Country Album, and Best Female Artist. It also featured the song "Not
Pretty Enough," which was a major hit in Australia and the U.K. and gained
airplay in the United States. She explored more ambitious and rock-oriented
sounds on 2006' Carnival before
stripping her music down to its roots for 2008's Rattlin'
Bones, a collaboration with her then-husband Shane
Nicholson. (They would work together again on 2012's Wreck
& Ruin.) Chambers explored
spiritual themes on 2015's Bittersweet,
duetted with Keith
Urban on the ambitious 2017 double set Dragonfly,
and followed it with her most austere acoustic album to date, 2018's Campfire.
Born on June 4, 1976 in Mount Gambier in South Australia, Kasey
Chambers was the daughter of two musicians, Bill and Diane
Chambers, who put their careers on hold that year to move to the Nullarbor
Plain, a sparsely vegetated and generally flat plateau measuring 100,000 square
miles. Supporting themselves by hunting fox, the family would spend seven or
eight months of the year on the Nullarbor, resupplying themselves from the
world's longest stretch of straight railroad track, 330 miles running through
the Nullarbor. The family spent the rest of the year at Southend, a small South
Australian fishing village. Each night out on the Nullarbor, after a day's
hunting, the family would camp in a different spot, and Bill and Diane would
sing, passing their love of country music to their children by the glow of the
campfire, under the stars.
In 1986, the family returned to "civilization" so that Bill and Diane could
return to their music careers. First, Kasey joined
them as lead singer, then brother Nash,
and they became known as the
Dead Ringer Band. By 1992, they had become full-time musicians, playing to
city audiences as well as heading back out into the countryside, and during the
'90s, the
Dead Ringer Band released seven CDs and collectively earned two ARIAs and
seven Gold Guitars at the annual Australian Country Music Awards in Tamworth. Kasey was
the face of a new generation in Australian country, sporting a nose ring, and
posing nude for a country music magazine (walking down the streets of a deserted
country town with brother Nash).
In 1998, Chambers'
world was turned upside down with the separation of her parents, with her mother
choosing to go and live on distant Norfolk Island, two-and-a-half hours by plane
off the Australian coast. Chamber started
putting her feelings into songs, and over a few weeks during July and August
1998, she recorded her first solo album, The
Captain, on Norfolk Island. With brother Nash acting
as producer, Kasey and
her musicians set up in an old homestead on the island, cutting most of the
material live. Father Bill was
on hand to play guitar, and American country legends Buddy
& Julie Miller added their voices and guitar to four tracks afterward in
Nashville.
Released in May 1999, The
Captain initially won Kasey the
1999 ARIA award for Best Country Album and, at the 2000 awards, earned her Best
Female Artist. With double-platinum sales at home in Australia, Kasey spent
the latter part of 2000 following up enthusiastic reviews for her album
internationally. She also spent time touring the U.S. with Lucinda Williams and playing gigs in her native land with Emmylou
Harris. She was in the studio as well; with her brother Nash at
the production board once again, Chambers delivered
another sonic beauty with 2002's Barricades
& Brickwalls. The album was a multi-platinum success in Australia and
significantly raised her profile in the United States, earning her enthusiastic
reviews and much better sales than The
Captain.
She released her third solo disc, Wayward
Angel, in the fall of 2004. The 14-song set gave her her first number one
album in Australia. Two years later, Chambers'
song "The Hard Way" was featured in an episode of the ABC adventure drama Lost.
Also around this time, Chambers married
longtime boyfriend and musical partner Shane
Nicholson. Carnival,
released in September 2006, was a more rock-oriented set that included
collaborations with Tim
Rogers of You
Am I and Powderfinger's Bernard
Fanning. In 2008, Chambersreleased
the sparse and heavily acoustic Rattlin'
Bones, a collaboration with Nicholson.
In 2009, she published her first book, a story for children called Little Kasey
Chambers & the Lost Music. The same year, she released an album of music for
youngsters with her father, titled Kasey
Chambers, Poppa Bill, and the Little Hillbillies. Her sixth full-length
album, Little
Bird, followed in 2010.
In 2012, Chambers released Wreck
& Ruin, her second album with Nicholson,
as well as Storybook,
a collection of covers in which she interpreted the songs of Steve
Earle, John
Prine, Gram
Parsons, Lucinda Williams, and James
McMurtry, among others. In 2013, Chambers and Shane
Nicholsondivorced, and the following year she issued Bittersweet,
her first solo effort in five years. It was also Chambers'
first album not produced with the participation of her brother, with Kasey telling
the press, "I wanted to have an experience making a record that I had never had
before." In July 2015, Bittersweet received
a belated U.S. release through Rounder Records, and in support, Chambers embarked
on a rare American tour.
In early 2017, Chambers released
her 11th studio album, Dragonfly.
An ambitious double set, Dragonfly included
material from sessions produced by iconic Australian singer/songwriter Paul
Kelly, while other tracks were produced by Nash
Chambers, accompanied by Kasey's
road band. Other guests on the album included Keith
Urban, Foy
Vance, and Harry
Hookey (the latter was romantically linked with Chambers at
the time). For 2018's Campfire, Chambers recorded
a set of acoustic numbers that ranked with her most spare performances to date; Emmylou
Harris and Bill
Chambers both guested on the sessions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasey_Chambers
Talents : Vocals, Guitar, Songwriter
Style musical : Country Folk / Country Rock
Years in activity :
| 1910 | 20 | 30 | 40 | 50 | 60 | 70 | 80 | 90 | 2000 | 10 | 20 |
DISCOGRAPHY
Singles & EP
| 02/2000 | CD EMI ? (AUS) |
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The Captain | ||
| 07/2000 | CD VIRGIN ? (AUS) |
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Cry Like A Baby | ||
| 11/2001 | CD EMI 879861 (AUS) |
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Runaway Train | ||
| 11/2001 | CD EMI 550002 (AUS) |
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On A Bad Day | ||
| 01/2002 | CD EMI 550410 (AUS) |
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Not Pretty Enough / These Days / Tear Stained Eyes / Too Long In The Wasteland | ||
| 2002 | CD WARNER BROS. PRO-CD-100750 (US) (promo) |
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Sampler - Not Pretty Enough (album version) / A Million Tears (album version) |
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| 03/2003 | CD EMI 551521 (AUS) |
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If I Were You / Nullabor Song (Live) / Changed The Locks (Live) / Million Tears (Live) | ||
| 04/2003 | CD EMI / CAPITOL 552134 (AUS) |
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True Color | ||
| 09/2004 | CD EMI 861513 (AUS) |
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Hollywood / Top Of The World (Live) / Like A River (Live) | ||
| 2004 | CD WARNER BROS. / Essence PRO-CD-101423 (US) (promo) |
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Kasey Chambers / The Ditty Bops - Kasey CHAMBERS : Pony (album version) / Wayward Angel (album version) / DITTY BOPS : Wishful Thinking (album version) / Wake Up (album version) |
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| 03/2005 | CD EMI 816859 (AUS) |
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Pony / Driving With The Brakes On / Hollywood (Live) | ||
| 08/2005 | CD EMI 330548 (AUS) |
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Saturated / Bluebird / Pony (Live At "The Max Sessions") | ||
| 06/2006 | CD EMI / CAPITOL 3644172 (AUS) |
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Nothing At All / Round Here / Circle | ||
| 2009 | CD Essence ? (AUS) (promo) |
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Kasey Chambers, Poppa Bill & The Little Hillbillies - Christmas Time |
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| 08/2010 | CD Liberation Music LMSP0112 (AUS) |
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Little Bird / Little Bird (acoustic) |
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| 2011 | CD Sugar Hill SUG-7112 (US) (promo) |
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Little Bird | ||
| 08/2016 | 2 CD Warner Music / Essence 5419731382 (AUS) |
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Ain't No Little Girl :
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Albums
| 1999 | CD Asylum PRO-CD-100573 (US) (promo) |
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On The Road With Kasey Chambers - The Captain / Better Be Home Soon / Water In The Fuel / If I Could / Cow Cow Boogie / Tear Stained Eye / Changed The Locks / The Captain |
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| 06/2000 | CD EMI 529281 (AUS) |
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THE CAPTAIN - Cry Like A Baby / The Captain / This Flower / You Got The Car / These Pines / Don't Talk Back / Southern Kind Of Life / Mr. Baylis / The Hard Way / Last Hard Bible / Don't Go / We're All Gonna Die Someday | ||||
| 02/2002 | CD EMI 5353322 (AUS) |
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| 09/2004 | CD EMI 571398 (AUS) |
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WAYWARD ANGEL - Pony / Hollywood / Stronger / Bluebird / More Than Ordinary / Wayward Angel / Paper Aeroplane / Like A River / For Sale / Follow You Home / Mother / Guilty As Sin / Lost And Found / Saturated | ||||
| 2004 | CD + DVD EMI / Essence CDRP718 (AUS) |
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Wayward Angel Introduction Pack :
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| 08/2006 | CD EMI 369506 (AUS) |
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CARNIVAL - Colour Of A Carnival / Sing On The Door / The Rain / Light Up A Candle / Hard Road / Nothing At All / Living On The Railroad / I Got You Now / Surrender / Dangerous / You Make Me Sing / Don't Look So Sad | ||||
| 04/2008 | CD LIBERATION 0005 (AUS) |
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RATTLIN' BONES - KASEY CHAMBERS / SHANE NICHOLSON - Rattlin' Bones / Once In A While / Sweetest Waste Of Time / Monkey On A Wire / One More Year / The House That Never Was / Wildflower / No One Hurts Up Here / The Devil's Inside My Head / Sleeping Cold / Adeline / Jackson Hole / Your Day Will Come / Woe Is Mine | ||||
| 11/2009 | CD LIBERATION / Essence LMCD0081 (AUS) |
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Kasey Chambers, Poppa Bill & The Little Hillbillies - The Lost Music Blues / The Ballad Of Poppa Bill / I Spy / Poppa Bill Says / Dad, Do You Remember? / Before You Came Along / Two Houses / Old Man Down On The Farm / My Oh My / When We Were Kids / Sometimes / Something In The Water / Imagination / Blue / Christmas Time / The Best Years | ||||
| 09/2010 | CD LIBERATION 0400883 (AUS) |
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LITTLE BIRD - Someone Like Me / Beautiful Mess / Devil On Your Back / Little Bird / Georgia Brown / Somewhere / This Story / Love Like A Hurricane / Down Here On Earth / Nullarbor, The Biggest Backyard / Bring Back My Heart / Invisible Girl / Train Wreck / The Stupid Things I Do | ||||
| 2011 | 4 CD EMI 0918682 (AUS) |
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4 albums :
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| 03/2012 | CD LIBERATION LMCD0167 (AUS) |
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STORYBOOK - Happy Woman Blues / Return Of The Grievous Angel / If I Needed You / Luka / Nothing But A Child / Leave The Lights On / I'm So Lonseome I Could Cry / Guilty / Orphan Girl / True Colours / Water In The Fuel / I Wish It Would Rain / Everything's Turning To White / Too Long In The Wasteland / Top Of The World | ||||
| 09/2012 | CD LIBERATION LMCD0178 (AUS) |
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WRECK & RUIN - KASEY CHAMBERS & SHANE
NICHOLSON :
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| 09/2014 | CD Essence 2779149 (AUS) |
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Bittersweet - Oh Grace / Is God Real? / Wheelbarrow / I Would Do / Hell Of A Way To Go / House On A Hill / Stalker / Heaven Or Hell / Bittersweet / Too Late To Save Me / Christmas Day / I'm Alive | ||||
| 06/2017 | 2 CD MGM 1 (AUS) |
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Dragonfly :
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| 05/2018 | CD Essence 2 (AUS) |
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Campfire - Kasey Chambers & the Fireside Disciples - The Campfire Song / Go On Your Way / Orphan Heart / Goliath Is Dead / Abraham / Early Grave / The Harvest & The Seed / Big Fish / Junkyard Man / Now That You've Gone / This Little Chicken / Fox & The Bird / Happy |
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| 10/2024 | CD Metropolitan Groove Merchants / Essence KC013CD |
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Backbone - A New Day Has Come / Backbone (The Desert Child) / A Love Like Springsteen / Dart n Feather / For Better Or Worse / Little Red Riding Hood / Silverado Girl / The Divorce Song (feat. Shane Nicholson) / Arlo / Broken Cup / My Kingdom Come (Feat. Ondara) / Something To Believe In / Take Me Down The Mountain / You Are Everything To Me / Lose Yourself (live at Civic Theatre, Newcastle) |
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