Kasey Chambers

The Nullarbor Plain in South Australia isn't renowned as a breeding ground for country music, but it proved to be fertile soil for Kasey Chambers. It was while she was growing up there that she absorbed all the classic values of country, and learned how to approach the music from her own unique point of view. She had plenty of help from her father, Bill, who worked as a country music teacher when he could tear himself away from his day job of trapping foxes. From ballads to bluegrass, gospel to rock & roll, Kasey's songs have got everything you could ever hope to find in Nashville, but they're given a keen edge by her heartfelt lyrics, then punched home by her powerfully emotive voice. "I feel that I get down to the roots of the music like Lucinda Williams and Emmylou Harris," Kasey thinks. "It's not surprising, since I grew up listening to Gram Parsons and Hank Williams."