![]() Country legends Buddy and Julie Miller added their voices and guitar to four tracks afterward in Nashville. With brother Nash acting as producer, Kasey and her musicians set up in an old homestead on the island and practically recorded the album live. Chambers started putting her feelings into songs, and over a few weeks during July and August 1998, Kasey recorded her solo album The Captain on Norfolk Island. She appeared at Tamworth dressed as a spice girl, wearing a nose ring, and posed nude for a country music magazine (walking down the streets of a deserted country town with brother Nash).br /br /In 1998, Chambers' world was turned upside down with the separation of her parents, with mother Diane choosing to go and live in distant Norfolk Island, two and a half hours by plane off the Australian coast. Kasey was the face of the new generation in Australian country. During the '90s, the Dead Ringer Band members, known as performers of quality country music, released seven CDs and collectively earned two ARIAs (Australian Grammys) and seven Gold Guitars at the annual Australian Country Music Awards in Tamworth. By 1992, the family had become full-time musicians, playing to city audiences as well as heading back out into the countryside, pulling a small trailer behind their Toyota Land Cruiser. ![]() First, Kasey joined them as lead singer, then brother Nash, and they became known as the Dead Ringer Band. This is how Kasey spent the first nine years of her life.br /br /In 1986, the family returned to "civilization" so that Bill and Diane could pick up interrupted music careers. Each night out on the Nullarbor, after a day's hunting, the family would camp in a different spot on that vast Australian landmark and, grabbing his guitar, Bill Chambers and his wife pa**ed on their love of country music, by the glow of the campfire, under the stars. The rest of the year, the hot months, the family spent at a small south Australian fishing village. The family would spend seven or eight months of the year on the Nullarbor, resupplying themselves from the world's longest stretch of straight railroad track, 330 miles (530 km), running through the Nullarbor. In 1976, hoping to earn a living hunting foxes, Bill and Diane Chambers took their two-year-old son Nash and newborn daughter Kasey into the 100,000 square mile (260,000 square km) sparsely vegetated and generally flat plateau called the Nullarbor Plain. It was just the latest chapter in a unique 25-year life journey. I think it has the potential to prove that country music has a lot more depth and soul…”, and converting fans Kasey certainly has! This is where it all began, with The Captain.In 2000, Kasey Chambers emerged as Australia's first successful country-to-rock crossover female singer. ![]() Speaking of the album back in 1999 Kasey said “I’d like to convert some people with this record. ![]() All housed in a slipcase with artwork staying true to the original album layout 32 page booklet with lyrics, touring photos, promo photos and an image of the original handwritten lyrics to The Captain song. 7 tracks from the bones edition of the album (2000) Hey Girl an unearthed track from archive, recorded at the time of The Captain Marks 20 years to the day since ”The Captain” was first released, placing Kasey Chambers on the scene as a young new solo artist.Ģ0 years later and she has collated memorabilia and unreleased tracks from archive to share on this special Deluxe Edition of The Captain.
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