It reached the top 50 of the Billboard Top Country Albums in 2001. The Captain was certified double platinum for shipment of 140,000 copies by Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) in 2001. At the ARIA Music Awards of 1999 she won Best Country Album and in the following year she won Best Female Artist for its title track, which was issued in 2000. It peaked at No. 11 on the ARIA Albums Chart and No. 1 on the related ARIA Country Albums chart. The Captain was released in May 1999 via EMI Music Australia and in June 2000 in the US by Asylum Records. United States country musicians, Buddy and Julie Miller added guitars and vocals to four tracks. Solo career 1998–2002: The Captain to Barricades & Brickwalls Ĭhambers recorded her debut solo album, The Captain, on Norfolk Island during July and August 1998 with her brother Nash producing and father Bill on guitar. The group ended as Chambers' parents divorced in the late 1990s, with Diane moving to Norfolk Island and Bill to Sydney. It's the worst song you've ever heard in your whole life." She cited Emmylou Harris as one of her primary influences, recalling that Harris' music was frequently played by her parents, ever since she was a child. And funnily enough the first song that I ever wrote in my life was called 'Beccy', about Beccy. Chambers later recalled, "I never really met anyone at this point in my life that was of the same generation as me – a young girl who liked country music. Ĭhambers met fellow country singer-songwriter, Beccy Cole, in mid-1989 in Adelaide – Cole later joined Dead Ringer Band on a tour through New South Wales before going solo. It was co-produced by the group with Eddie Sikorski at John Reynolds Recording Studio, Adelaide. For their first album, Red Desert Sky (November 1993), she was named as Kasey Jo Chambers, provided vocals and wrote four of its tracks. From 1992 Dead Ringer Band released an extended play and four albums. Chambers was recorded on vocals for two albums released under Bill's name, Sea Eagle (1987) and Kindred Spirit (1991). In the following year their parents added first Chambers and then Nash to their act, which became the Dead Ringer Band – named for the children looking like their parents. During the "hot months" (generally from November to March) they returned to Southend, South Australia, where her family owned a fish and chip shop for a time.įrom 1986 Bill and Diane returned to performing as a country music duo, while their children attended school in Southend. From July 1976 the Chambers family travelled around the Nullarbor Plain, where the parents hunted foxes and rabbits for pelts during seven or eight months a year, spanning nine years. Her older brother, Nash Chambers was born in 1974. He has won Golden Guitars for Producer of the Year and for Engineer of the Year.Kasey Chambers was born in 1976 in Mount Gambier, South Australia to Diane and Bill Chambers. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2007 he was nominated for Producer of the Year for Kasey's album Carnival (August 2006). Chambers works from his own Foggy Mountain Studios in the Hunter Valley. He is a former member of the family country music group, Dead Ringer Band (1986–98), with his father Bill, mother Diane, and younger sister Kasey Chambers.
Nash Chambers (born, Mount Gambier) is an Australian record producer, talent manager, audio engineer and multi-instrumentalist.
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