Continued from this comment on another thread. Celebrate Kasey, and/or Australian music cultures should you wish. It’s Friday after all.
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Excellent! I hadn’t seen either of these. The guitarist in the white shirt singing backup is her dad Bill.
She and various members of her family got a good review by a rather strange reviewer in the New York Times last month. ‘Rustic stridency’, I love it. The man has clearly never been to Ceduna and points west and north where she grew up.
I saw her here in Adders a few years ago in a show with Emmylou Harris and Buddy Miller (which is where I first heard the Ultimate Country Song). They were all fantastic.
Is Kasey Chambers a lipsniger? Wow, the things you learn on LP!
I once worked with a bloke who did all the interfaces on our wonderful programs. Every time he came up with a less than aesthetically pleasing one, we’d try a new way of explaining it without telling him it was as ugly as a hatful of bungholes. We told him once a new screen he had drawn was “a bit Kasey Chambers”. He didn’t get it.
Him: “What? Is that something to do with captains?”
Us: “Not pretty enough”.
Ta for the NYT link, pav. Missed that. Pleased to see Justin Townes Earle opening for them. His is my favourite album of the year thus far, with Rattlin’ Bones a close second. He’s touring here in November.
I have some recent live Kasey/Shane YouTubes up — the vision is rubbish but the sound is OK. http://au.youtube.com/user/edithkeeler
Well I spose I’d better bone up then Pav. Anyone who can share a stage with Emmylou and come off looking okay has to have something.
Not Pretty Enough and her merciless fucking disembowellment of My Cindy’s Time After Time will take some forgiving though. Or should that be forgivin’?
I’m in a band with kindasorta country leanings BTW, with a dash of urban sea-shanty convict feel – and there won’t be a drop of Ameritwang passing our lips you may rest assured. You might get more colonial history than you bargained for.
Wait, it was True Colours wasn’t it?
So many disgraceful outpourings of ordure on Cindy’s songs, so much trying to forget – I hope you all understand.
Hey, I was at the same concert in Siderny. I thought the star of the show was Buddy Miller, but Kasey Chambers did OK.
I have a problem with her voice though, but maybe that’s just me. Her ‘Captain’ CD is one of those CDs that you buy, but end up playing maybe once or twice. Does anybody else have that experience with music purchasing?
I just accept the fact that a few purchases are always going to end up as duds, maybe 10%?
Maybe a good idea for a post. CDs that you never play!
Amanda, yep, JT Earle is coming to Adders tho’ unfortunately playing at the Gov, where the punters think it is cool to stand around at live gigs chatting at normal volume during the performances or, more usually, shouting so they can hear each other above the music. If I went I would end up in danger of getting arrested for assault, which would be unbecoming in a woman of my age.
FDB, I like the sound of yr band. Emmylou and Kasey sang a duet, which one would not have expected to work given how different the timbres of their voices are, but it was really good.
We’re coming to Adders next weekend for a Triffids tribute night at the Grace Emily, PC. If you wanna check out our non-originals.
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Also.. a DUET??!? Cripes, that’s gutsy. Clashing timbres can work wonders though (cf Emmylou and Bob Dylan).
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I know a good audiologist FDB, I suspect you might need your ears checked.
I can take Kasey in small doses, but she veers towards fingernails down a blackboard at the reach of her range for me. She’s on my top ten list of singers who may be theoretically capable of producing the brown note.
Having said that, it seems fairly clear that Kasey’s style veers towards that Emmylou sound she used with Gram Parsons. Whether that’s a good thing I don’t know.
Ah, another reminder of the utter tedium of country music. I had also been wondering who it was butchering Cyndi Lauper in the shopping centres; thanks for letting me know.
At least fellow crow-eater Sally-Anne Russell doesn’t sing with an American accent!
FDB — got it. Heh.
The Grace Emily is hardcore Ancient Unrenovated Pub (or it was the last time I was there) but the crowd will be cool.
Yeah, we was shocked! shocked I tells ya!!! to find a very warm and enthusiastic crowd there back in March. We only knew a handful of mates we could bully into coming, but apparently it’s on of those places people just go to check out what’s on. Mind you, I could be idealising. We were expecting nothing, and pretty *ahem* warm and enthusiastic ourselves. Probably still our most fun gig anywhere – cool chaotically laid-out pub, rooms upstairs where they put the band up for free, 2 slabs of Coopers’ for a 6-person band, nice level pool table… no complaints at all!
Put Sydney to shame anyway – at the Something-or-other Cat in Balmain it’s pokies and thin, overdone steaks in a massive hall full of people who are there for the pokies and thin, overdone steaks. Then a teeny spartan room at the front for bands, shitty PA, one (1) schooner per muso, and get this… pay to play unless you bring x number of punters (they have to nominate who they’ve come for at the door). This place is known as one of the better venues to play at. For shame, Sydney.
The Grace Emily is a wonderful pub. Last time I was in Adders, I saw ‘The Handsome Family’ there. Excellent stuff.
My daughter likes her, I don’t. She has that horrible whiny country singer voice and the American accent gets up my nose as well. She’s a pr*ck relation to my kids; my husband’s sister-in-law is her cousin. Small world, ain’t it?
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=IiPRN63sfPE
Thank you QLD.
The Good China reminded me of The Bedridden, and for that I am grateful, they might never have softened my synapses again. Who’d have thought you could get away with naming a public space Club Foote hey.