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Kasey Chambers at Variety Playhouse
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Kasey Chambers: You’re a hit in Atlanta. Not just any singer-songwriter can deliver an almost-full Variety Playhouse on a Monday night. (See Lloyd Cole and Ron Sexsmith’s recent excellent but underattended visit.) Nor can just anyone draw scores of worshippers to the foot of the stage for the entire show. Your fans even knew the words to the songs from your seven-week-old album, “Wayward Angel.” Perhaps it was your Australian accent and raspy giggle that had them eating out of your hand. Perhaps it was your easy stage presence. Or maybe your helium-tinged voice. (If only you’d dial back the whole nasal thing just a bit…) Most likely it’s those deeply personal lyrics, which sound as if you wrote them during a wine-soaked commiserative dinner with a girlfriend. Whatever the reason, the audience adored you — never more so than when you came out solo at the encore to sing a slower, sadder (yet somehow angrier) version of your big hit, “The Captain.” Come back soon.
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