CHAMBERS FINDING HER WAY JUST FINE.Byline: Sandra Barrera Staff Writer Kasey Chambers was more confident about ``Wayward Angel,'' her new album, than she was her 2002 breakthrough release. That album, ``Barricades and Brickwalls,'' which Billboard said ``bursts with passionate songwriting and a singing voice fraught with emotion,'' was also full of insecurity. So says Chambers, who will be supporting her new album tonight at the El Rey El Rey, which means "The King" in the Spanish language, may refer to:
``There's something else swallowing up my whole life now,'' Chambers says. She, of course, is talking about Talon, her 2-year-old son - with whom she was pregnant the last time she toured the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . That was the year alt-country music fans were first taken by the singer who Rolling Stone rolling stone Noun a restless or wandering person likened to ``kindred souls Emmylou Harris Emmylou Harris (b. April 2, 1947, Birmingham, Alabama) is a country, folk and alternative rock musician. In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, both as an interpreter of other composers' works and as a singer-songwriter, she is a sought-after backing vocalist and , Steve Earle Steve Earle (born Stephen Fain Earle January 17, 1955) is an American singer-songwriter, well known for his rock and country music, as well as for his many political views. He is also a published writer, a political activist and has written and directed a play. and Gram Parsons.'' But they were also drawn to her colorful past. Chambers spent the first 10 years of her life crisscrossing the Australian Outback with her family. Her father was a fox hunter back then. These days, Bill Chambers For the baseball player, see . Bill Chambers (born 1923) is a former player in the All-America Football Conference. He played for the New York Yankees. He attended Georgia Tech for college. plays guitar in his daughter's band. He was the first to race to her side the night that Chambers, who was 7 1/2 months pregnant at the time, fainted during a concert in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden and brought her American tour to an end. On doctor's orders, she was sent home for the remainder of her pregnancy. It was no easy transition for the energetic Chambers. ``I get really itchy itch·y adj. Having or causing an itching sensation. feet when I'm at home for too long,'' she says. But that's where having a baby changed Chambers. ``This little thing that I was all of a sudden holding in my hands went straight to the top of my priority list,'' she says. ``It's such a natural progression. Just having something much bigger to think about makes what I do a little easier, and I guess that side of it comes out in my writing.'' Sandra Barrera, (818) 713-3728 sandra.barrera(at)dailynews.com KASEY CHAMBERS Where: El Rey, 5515 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles. When: 7 tonight. Tickets: $28.50. Call (213) 480-3232 or go to www.ticketmaster.com. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Aussie alt-country star Kasey Chambers plays the El Rey tonight in support of her new album, ``Wayward Angel.'' |
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