Little Bird
Kasey Chambers
Released:
Jul 2011
Label:
Sugar Hill
Alt-country queen Kasey Chambers has been huge in her native Australia since 1999's The Captain; her sixth album, Little Bird, wisely keeps the focus on her sharp, sweet, mournful voice, which turns the gripping title track into both a heartbroken lament and a girl-power anthem. The banjo-laden "Nullarbor (The Biggest Backyard)" rhapsodizes her open-sky childhood home, "as wide as it was high"; ribald closing rocker "Train Wreck" lets her snarl a little. But soft sadness is her medium: "I'm all cried out," she moans on one of the ballads -- but don't count on it.
Play Album
-
4:09
-
3:14
-
3:23
-
3:30
-
1:45
-
3:47
-
3:42
-
3:09
-
3:15
-
2:24
-
2:56
-
3:18
-
5:55
-
1:59
(C) 2011 Essence Music Australia, distributed by Sugar Hill Records, A Welk Music Group Company. All rights reserved. Unauthorized reproduction is a violation of applicable laws. Manufactured by EMI Label Services,