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Posted - 13/04/2016 : 16:09:25
2012 Official Americana Awards -
Kasey Chambers and Shane Nicholson "Rattlin' Bones"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyZ_hDPsIp4&nohtml5=False
KACY CHAMBERS (& Shane Nichlson)
Kasey Chambers (born 4 June 1976) is an Australian country singer-songwriter. She is the daughter of singer and musician Bill Chambers, and the sister of musician and producer Nash Chambers.
Solo Success
Chambers recorded her solo album The Captain on Norfolk Island over a few weeks in late 1998 with Nash Chambers producing the album and Bill Chambers on guitar. US country musicians Buddy Miller and Julie Miller added guitars and vocals to four tracks. The Captain was released in 1999 in Australia and in 2000 in the US. Chambers won the 1999 ARIA Award for "Best Country Album" for The Captain and a year later she would win "Best Female Artist". The strong word of mouth would eventually lead to The Captain going double platinum in Australia. The Captain would eventually reach the top 50 of the Billboard country albums in 2001 with Chambers touring the US as support act to Lucinda Williams. Subsequently, she supported Emmylou Harris on her Australian tour. Chambers would receive further exposure when "The Captain" was played on episode 8 of the third season of HBO's The Sopranos titled "He Is Risen".
Chambers' second album Barricades & Brickwalls was released in late 2001 debuting at No. 4 in the ARIA album charts. The record really took off in early 2002 with lead single "Not Pretty Enough" going to No. 1 on the ARIA singles charts. Chambers became the only Australian country artist to have a No. 1 single and album on the charts in that country simultaneously. Subsequent singles "Million Tears" and "If I Were You" also made the Australian Top 40 singles charts in 2002.
In 2010 the Australian Independent Record (AIR) Award for 'Best Independent Country Album' went to the Australian country family dynasty - Kasey Chambers, Poppa Bill and the Little Hillbillies - for their Lost Music Blues album. A unique[citation needed] collaboration of 3 generations - the 16 original songs were crafted together by Kasey, her father Bill, brother Nash and their collective brood of Little Hillbillies
Rattlin' Bones
AllMusic Review by Mark Deming
As we all learned from watching There Will Be Blood, ambition can be a good thing and a bad thing. On her fourth solo album, Carnival, Kasey Chambers seemed determined to move past the country influences that dominated her earlier work, and while she proved more than worthy to the task, the album also upped the creative ante in a way that raised unspoken questions about what Chambers would or could do for an encore. So the surprise is that for album number five, Chambers has seemingly taken a step back -- Rattlin' Bones is a spare, primarily acoustic set she wrote and recorded in collaboration with former Pretty Violet Stain vocalist Shane Nicholson (who also happens to be Chambers' husband). With its concise arrangements and Appalachian accents, Rattlin' Bones plays like an effort to reclaim some of the country feeling she gave up on Carnival and return to more familiar surroundings, except for one little thing -- this is as good and as compelling an album as Kasey Chambers has ever made. The good news is that Chambers and Nicholson are as fine a match in the recording studio as they presumably are at home, and his high lonesome tenor blends beautifully with the emotionally charged nooks and crannies of her one-of-a-kind voice. Chambers is still a top-shelf songwriter who can document common scenes of life with uncommon pathos and attention to detail, and Nicholson's contributions are equally intelligent and just as effective. Most of Rattlin' Bones sounds like it was laid down live in the studio, and the communication between the vocalists and the musicians is a beautiful thing to hear, whether they're calling up the shade of death on "Sleeping Cold" or gracefully contemplating the tricky side of love on "Wildflower." Rattlin' Bones is an album that sounds simple on the surface, but it never feels lazy or short on creative vision -- Chambers and Nicholson have found something elegant and emotionally powerful in the pared-down production and arrangements of these sessions, and the music they've created is a wonder to behold, as if they found a way to make a wildly ambitious musical statement without asking you to believe that's what they had in mind. A neat trick, that.
The Captain...live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diVshbgnBF8&nohtml5=False
Not Pretty Enough
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdflARH06dY&index=2&list=PLF686852A759DC9EF&nohtml5=False
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