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Q: Good day. You're listening to 107.1 KGSR. I'm Kevin Connor. Welcome to What Do You Want for Brunch, Live from the KGSR Music Lounge. And normally, we do this the day of a show. The artist is coming into town, they get set up for their concert. But because of their tour schedule, this worked out best for Kasey Chambers and her band and her family. They did a fantastic show last night at La Zona Rosa. Any of you were there?
(Cheering.)
A: They weren't even there.
Q: They were -- well, they're well trained. We'll let you in, we'll feed you, just clap when we hold up the sign. But it was a fantastic show. And it's so glad to have you back here in town.
A: Thank you.
Q: Please welcome live on KGSR Kasey Chambers.
Song: "A LITTLE BIT LONESOME"
A: Thank you.
Q: That was Hank Williams channeling himself from the Great Beyond through to Kasey Chambers. I'm sure some people look at the -- they're sure it's a Hank Williams song, but you wrote it.
A: I wrote it, yeah. But it was after a week of listening to Hank Williams straight. So you know, it's all that could come out at that point.
Q: Kasey Chambers is with us. And her dad, Bill, over there on lead guitar and dobro. Good to see you again, Bill.
A: (Bill) Thanks, mate, great to be back.
Q: Glen Hannah on guitar as well. Glen. Jeff McCormack on bass. And BJ Barker, the drummer, is here somewhere. BJ, how are you? Nice to see you.
A: He's eating all the food in the back.
Q: Now, he still gets paid, right?
A: He doesn't get paid on normal gigs, what do you mean?
Q: Just along for the ride. Two stylish buses. Now, you said last night at La Zona Rosa that one is the family, baby-safe bus and then there's the one for the band.
A: That's right, because we've got two babies on the road at the moment. I have an eight-month-old son. And my brother also has a son that's ten weeks old. So, like, we all hang out on one bus, which is the non-smoking, responsible "baby bus." And then we have the rock-and-roll bus where all the band hang out and all the fun happens.
Q: The rolling poker party, right? But one of the buses was really Ozzy Osbourne's bus?
A: It is, yeah. Someone told me that before I came over on tour. They said "the bus you have for the baby bus is Ozzy Osbourne's bus". And I'm like -- I was freaking out. I'm thinking, I'm dreading to think what Talon is going to find in the bathroom or something. I was really worried about that. And then I come over and I thought, well, you know, they'll probably say that it's very cool at the moment to talk about Ozzy Osbourne. But I was watching the Osbournes yesterday on the bus. And it showed this shot of it, of our bus! So it really is, yeah.
Q: It's kind of surreal, huh?
A: It was actually cleaner when he was on it. Seriously.
Q: And speaking of ironic situations, you write a song about radio -- not us, but the rest of radio -- and say, "Hey, what's wrong? What's wrong with me?" And then it becomes your biggest hit and a No. 1 song for five weeks in Australia.
A: It's weird because I wrote that song long before radio had ever played me anywhere. And it was sort of one of those, just insecure moments of wondering why they ignored me. And so I sat down and I wrote this song. And it's funny it ended up going to No. 1 on the pop charts in Australia from all the radio support. I didn't tell them beforehand what it was about, though! (Laughter).
Q: You know, radio would never figure it out unless you explained it to them.
A: No, really. It sounds like a love song. So I just let them think that until after they made it a hit and then I came out and told everyone.
Q: Now that we're No. 1, this song is about you. Well, it's actually on our Broadcasts CD Volume 10. Thank you very much for giving us that performance. But let's hear it again right now.
A: Sure.
Song: "NOT PRETTY ENOUGH"
Q: Kasey Chambers on 107.1 KGSR. We got some email the other day and some folks said they were going to be up late. They're up tomorrow to listen on the internet... we're back on the internet. So say hi to Australia folks (cheers). We love you Australia. Come on up and visit. And for those people listening on the Internet in Dallas, you should know that Kasey and her band will be playing tonight at the Gypsy Tea Room. And you can still get tickets. So go check 'em out. And last summer, when you were having your baby, your dad was nice enough, first of all, to call and let us know. That was cool when he called. But he came up and was hanging out in Austin for a while and playing some gigs and bringing out his own new record, which, I think the first song on it, Bill, isn't it I Wish I was in Austin at La Zona Rosa?
A: (Bill) It's called Dreaming About Texas.
Q: Yeah. There you go. And I got to say, last night at La Zona Rosa it was really touching when it was Kasey and your dad, Bill, and your mom, Diane, and your brother, Nash, all doing the Townes Van Zandt song in Texas. That was just amazing.
A: Oh, we're lucky to get a chance to do that, you know. We've been singing that song for as long as I can remember. And we've never played it in Texas before. That was pretty cool.
Q: I could just see you sitting around the campfire sometime as kids all learning your parts.
A: Yeah, we did. That's exactly what we used to do. You know, it was songs like that that my dad used to teach us when we were out on the (Nalibour?) sitting around the campfire.
Q: And he taught you one by John Sebastian.
A: Yeah, well, we just learned this one recently. My dad brought out his album called "Sleeping with the Blues" and asked me to do a duet on the album. So it actually took us a while to figure out what song we were going to do, because we sort of wanted to do something that was really fitting of our lifestyle. And this is the one that we found.
Song: "THE STORIES WE COULD TELL"
A: Thanks! That's my Dad!
Q: Kasey Chambers and Bill Chambers.
A: (Bill) That's my breakfast voice.
Q: You'll find that on Bill's album, "Living with the Blues."
A: (Bill) Thanks, mate.
Q: Thank you. We're live here at the KGSR Music Lounge -- sometimes it's a conference room. And today it's a Music Lounge -- with Kasey Chambers and her band. And it's definitely a family thing, as you brought your son out last night. And your nephew, the guy with all the hair.
A: That was his debut appearance in America.
Q: Oh, yeah?
A: Yeah. He didn't want to get off stage. He just kept grabbing the microphone. It kind of looks like he's going to be a singer or something. I was hoping he was going to be a doctor or a lawyer, but, no such luck.
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