Alternative country favorite Buddy Miller added his harmonies on “These Pines” and “The Hard Way.” His wife Julie Miller did the same on the title track.īefore she signed with Asylum/Warner Bros., some Nashville record labels suggested that Chambers needed to polish her sound if she was to have any shot at success in the U.S. Her father, Bill Chambers, supplied lead guitar. Herīrother, Nash Chambers, produced and played bass on the project. The album was recorded primarily on Norfolk Island, off the coast of Australia in the South Pacific. Chambers has earned top awards from the Australian Recording Industry Association (the Australian equivalent of the Grammys) and the Country Music Association of Australia. The Captain was released in Australia in 1999. isn’t trying to get mainstream country radio play because they know my music is not going to fit and that’s not where I want to be.” I realized where I’m going musically and what sorts of people are going to want to hear that kind of music. I certainly worked out which audience I liked better. “That was the greatest show of my life I got to sit next to Lucinda and listen to her sing all night. “Playing the Bluebird was a hard thing to top,” she observes. Three days earlier, Chambers appeared in an extremely different and more intimate setting, swapping songs with Williams, Joy Lynn White and Cindy Bullens at Nashville’s famed songwriting haunt, the Bluebird Café. “I was flattered that I was asked to be on the show, but I realized it’s not really my gig.” “Playing Fan Fair was a defining moment,” Chambers recalls in a phone interview during a tour stop in Ann Arbor, Mich. On a Monday afternoon, thousands of spectators sweltered at the Tennessee State Fairgrounds as they listened to Chad Brock, Bryan White and other country stars on the bill. to appear at International Country Music Fan Fair in Nashville. staffers in Nashville and on the coast got their first look at her and better understood where she might fit into the American popular music scene.Ĭhambers, 24, came to the U.S. Traveling 10,000 miles to Nashville last June, Chambers experienced an epiphany that brought clarity to her self-image. They concentrated their efforts on the Americana and Triple – A formats, placing Chambers in territory inhabited by singer-songwriters such as Lucinda Williams rather than in the more highly polished arena of commercial country radio. With Chambers’ approval, the label’s Nashville (country) and Los Angeles (pop) divisions agreed to join forces in marketing the singer-songwriter. released The Captain, her American debut, the company made plans to position Chambers as a country artist on its Nashville-based Asylum imprint. “Most of my audience is not mainstream country music fans.”īefore Warner Bros. Her lower lip, a navel ring and Goth-like eye makeup. “I’m not in the same bag as them,” says Chambers, who doesn’t look much like anything coming out of Music Row, with a silver stud below , is turning the heads of music critics and roots music fans with her beautiful, pure country voice.
But another Aussie singer, Kasey Chambers Note: When you embed the widget in your site, it will match your site's styles (CSS).Keith Urban and Jamie O’Neal - the first Australians to top the country charts since Olivia Newton-John in the early ’70s - may be among Nashville’s hottest properties at the moment.
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So this flower is my soul but it's not half of what I owe I would give you all the world if I could So I will owe you for a while, maybe longer than my time It's not near enough to give you what I should Well, all the flowers growing wild for ten thousand lonely miles Oh, this flower is my soul but it's not half of what I owe I would do just that and give it all to youīut it's impossible to pay all the things you gave away Well, if my life was long enough to pack up everything I love I should give you every rose that ever grewīut take this one here for a start and you can keep it in your heart Well, this flower is my soul but it's not half of what I owe
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