​Kasey Chambers (from the album Backbone

​Kasey Chambers (from the album Backbone

​Kasey Chambers (from the album Backbone available on Essence Music) (by Danny McCloskey)
Over soft Country Rock chords, Kasey Chambers lets her voice rise above in Soul shouts for “A New Day Has Come”, the opening track for her recent release, Backbone. As genres come and go, Kasey Chambers has successfully navigated all styles shifts with the power of her voice as the driving wheel. Her ability to emotionally charge vocals to fit the narrative is present in equal measure to her 1999 debut, The Captain, and her break-through 2002 release, Brickwalls and Barricades. Backbone shares its title with “Backbone (The Desert Child)”, the song strumming scratchy Australian grit into chords as Kasey Chambers raises her voice in harmony to enter the dark rhythms of “Dart N Feather”, quiets to a hush becoming “Silverado Girl”, and riding a shuffle-on-steroids beat to back “Take Me Down the Mountain”.
 
A healthy spinning wheel of Australian Americana packs Backbone with a hefty fifteen tracks, including a banjo reverie to begin the live version of Kasey Chambers covering Eminem with “Lose Yourself”, the sonics layering electric guitar before blasting open with an arena worthy Rock’n’Roll struts. Guitar sparkle surrounds the wishes of “A Love Like Springsteen” while a honky tonk slow dance pushes the promises of “For Better or Worse” as Backbone lets voices and a lone guitar be the bed for “My Kingdom Comes” while Kasey Chambers asks for directions and guidance in “Broken Cup”, as she relates a fairy tale over a Back Alley Jazz beat with “Little Red Riding Hood”, and follows a hammering righteous rhythmic march into the Rock Gospel of “Something to Believe In”. (by Danny McCloskey)
 
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