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Kasey Chambers is big in Australia. The Aussie lass has sold lots of discs and won a butt-load of awards in her native country during the course of her 15 year recording career. Seven of her ten albums have hit the Australian top 10, including four that reached number one. Her latest, Bittersweet was released in August down under, and so far has peaked at number two on the charts...
- www.popmatters.com
2015-01-21
★★★★★
If Steve Earle and Lucinda Williams were to marry and adopt an Australian child, her name would be Kasey Chambers. There's no need to dream of such a union however. Chambers already exists and has her own talented family to boot. Brother Nash produced her latest effort and father Bill plays an array of instruments on several songs. "Runaway Train" and "Barricades & Brickwalls" are more raw and gritty than the usual garbage churned out by Nashville...
- www.plume-noire.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
The best acoustic American roots music comes from Australia these days.
The reality that Australian singer/songwriter Kasey Chambers creates great American music is now longer news. She's been doing it since the late 1990s. Nor is the fact that she and her Aussie husband Shane Nicholson produce fantastic Appalachian-style tunes. The duo's 2008 release, Rattlin' Bones, clearly proved their mettle...
- www.popmatters.com
2012-12-06
★★★★★
Because her own songwriting is so idiosyncratic and distinctive, Kasey Chambers has rarely looked to outside writers for material, so it's something of a surprise that she's recorded a covers album. While Chambers insists that the artists whose work she's selected for Storybook were integral to her own development as a singer-songwriter, it's not like she's ever hidden the influences of Gram Parsons, Lucinda Williams, and Gillian Welch on her work...
- www.slantmagazine.com
2012-08-13
★★★★★
It's been exactly 10 years since I interviewed Australian singer-songwriter Kasey Chambers for the pages of Ink 19 (so long ago there were still actual pages if I recall correctly). A lot has changed in those 10 years. Chambers, who was touring behind her first solo album The Captain at the time, has released six more albums including her latest, gotten married to fellow Aussie (and Neil Finn vocal doppelganger) Shane Nicholson, and had a baby.But on her latest disc not much has changed at all...
- www.ink19.com
2011-07-18
★★★★★
When Australian Kasey Chambers first stepped into the limelight, she seemed like a little bird -- young and delightfully precious, if not precocious. She idolized Lucinda Williams, and toured with -- and sometimes sounded like -- America's own Americana queen. But on "Little Bird," Chambers harks back to her early era, without for a minute sounding reminiscent of any other artist...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2011-07-18
★★★★★
Already certified platinum in her native Australia, Kasey Chambers's sixth album, Little Bird, has finally made its belated debut in the U.S. nearly a year after its initial release. Despite favorable comparisons to Lucinda Williams, Patty Griffin, and even Taylor Swift, Kasey Chambers simply hasn't connected with American audiences the way she has with listeners in her home country, where she's been a major star for well over a decade...
- www.slantmagazine.com
2011-07-18
★★★★★
Kasey Chambers has earned raves from the likes of Lucinda Williams, who calls the Aussieher favorite new artist. While her Melanie-like voice has to growon you, her songs on The Captain ? part singer-songwriter observation, hillbillyheartache, and English pub stomper ? score for immediacy. Throw inthe tune about selling your last Bible to pay the bills, and thegirl from Down Under comes out on top. B
- ew.com
2011-03-03
★★★★★
Country music deals in simple truths, honest, unabashed sentiment and well-worn themes. Kasey Chambers has made a career of being accessible and well-liked; the inherent honesty in her songwriting is what propelled to the top of the mainstream charts and has seen her maintain her multi-platinum selling career without any concessions to the glittery pop world. is full of such universal truths...
- www.themusicnetwork.com
2013-04-25
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