2025 Charity Shop Purchases #34 - Kasey Chambers - Little Bird
Around the turn of the century when I was totally immersed in Americana I saw the Australian artist Kasey Chambers play on a couple of occasions and picked up her debut album The Captain (1999) and Barricades & Brickwalls (1991)
I subsequently picked up her third Wayward Angel in a local charity shop in 2014. I am now following that up with Little Bird her 7th studio album from 2010, and on the Essence label, which again was a charity acquisition.
Similarities can, or have, been made with Kacey Musgraves in that they both started out more leftfield but have become more mainstream over the years. That is particularly true of Ms Musgraves.
In the case of Little Bird music critic Alex Eremenko writes in Allmusic -Little Bird is more old school, as it peppers the pop hits with honest to God country numbers, complete with banjo and fiddle... With Chambers, the music and the words sometimes tether on the brink of cliché, not archetype. But for the most part, she is still able to deliver her tunes with honesty that makes you think about feelings she's conveying, not her recording budgets, as is the case with many over-processed country stars out there.
I agree with that and it helps to cement her place on the Americana shelves (Blue) as opposed to the mainstream Country ones (white)
The first Train Wreck was a fine song but that bluegrass track that follows is the bifters
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