Kasey Chambers - Barricades & Brickwalls
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Artist: Kasey ChambersEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2002-02-12
Music Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Barricades & Brickwalls
- Not Pretty Enough
- On A Bad Day
- Runaway Train
- A Little Bit Lonesome
- Nullarbor Song
- Million Tears
- Still Feeling Blue
- This Mountain
- Crossfire
- Falling Into You
- If I Were You
- I Still Pray
Free Music Notes for Barricades & Brickwalls
Free Music Review: When the Lonesome Whistle Cries
Hit: 4 Stars
For some reason, I didn't connect with Kasey's freshman set. I bought it because anything Lucinda Williams raves about is going to be interesting. This 2002 set popped into my pocket recently at a $2 sidewalk sale. I figured I'd give Chambers another listen. Whether it's me in a different space or Chambers, "Barricades & Brickwalls" is a more satisfying set for me. The title track is probably my favorite with its crunching electric guitars and its boogie feel that'd put a smile on Fred Eaglesmith's face, "You can chain me down on the edge of town; You can leave me there to die, but the railroad track will bring me back when the lonesome whistle cries." "I found the answer but I never liked it," Chambers sings on electric blowout "Crossfire." Several of the midtempo tracks like "If I Were You" & "On A Bad Day" work well. Gram Parsons' "Still Feeling Blue" is a given a casual hoe-down reading that will having you tap your foot, even if you don't quite remember the track. "Nullarbor Song" had me look up the location on the internet, a desert area of Australia with limestone cliffs that flavors the sad music of the track. There are few too many slow laments on the set like "A Million Tears" & "The Mountain." However, there's enough great stuff here that it's well worth checking out. Enjoy!
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The hard-edged title cut kicking off this disc suggests that Kasey Chambers might be exploring an entirely different frontier than she did on her 2000 debut, The Captain, but the dozen tracks that follow are much more in line with the sparkling country-folk of her first album. That's good, because at this early stage in her career, there's no reason for Chambers to stray from her obvious strengths: simple but honest lyricism set to tastefully twangy instrumentation and spiked by her alternately sweet and sassy voice rising straight from the South (even if, in her case, it's South Australia). Various guest vocalists add breadth to the proceedings, with results that range from slightly disappointing (Lucinda Williams on "On a Bad Day") to effectively reflective (Paul Kelly on "I Still Pray") to wondrously evocative (Buddy Miller on "Runaway Train") to downright transcendent (Matthew Ryan on "Million Tears"). Mostly, though, it's Chambers's confidence and charm that shines brightly and clearly. --Peter BlackstockFrom one of the most acclaimed singer-songwriters to emerge in years, 'Barricades And Brickwalls' has already hit the top of the charts and is 1 1/2 times platinum in her native Australia. Wrapping her stunning voice around true-life stories, Kasey Chambers storms America's musical barricades and brickwalls with melody, emotion and wisdom. Warner Bros. Records.
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