Encore: How not to be a d***head with singer Kasey Chambers
6/23/202651 min
Country music artist Kasey Chambers has spent her life making music and connecting with audiences. It’s what she believes she was put on the earth to do.
Growing up Kasey and her family spent much of the year camping and roaming the Nullabor Plain where her dad would hunt for foxes and rabbits.
She started singing around the campfire as a little girl and went to sleep to the sound of her father’s rifle as he worked through the night.
Singing came naturally to Kasey, and she loved all the old country classics, as well as some Cyndi Lauper and Bruce Springsteen.
The title of Kasey’s memoir is a tribute to her father and the most important piece of advice she’s ever received.
This episode of Conversations was first broadcast in 2024.
Further Information
Just Don't Be A D**khead is published by Hardie Grant.
You can learn more about Kasey's music here
This episode of Conversations explores family, childhood, growing up in rural Australia, music, singing, country music, camping, hunting foxes and rabbits, fathers, guitar, Cyndi Lauper, Bruce Springsteen, ARIA Hall of Fame, eating disorders, motherhood.
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First 90 secondsKasey Chambers· Guest0:00
ABC Listen. Podcasts, radio, news, music, and more. Kasey Chambers has been singing songs and making music all her life. First as a little kid sitting around the campfire while growing up out on the Nullarbor Plain. Then as a teenager in pubs, clubs, and roadhouses across Australia with her family band. And now Kasey sings in concert halls and festivals all around the world. This big career in music has never been about fame or money. For Kasey, it's all about wanting to share and to connect with other people in all their struggles and their glory, along with a deep abiding love of music, especially what Paul Kelly described as, "That real-deal, old-time country," when he inducted Kasey into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2018. Kasey has just published her first book, a heartfelt memoir called, and excuse my French, Just Don't Be a Dickhead. Hi, Kasey. [laughs] I think I should've just gotten you to write the book for me. [laughs] That was a very good introduction. Thank you. Thank you. Why that title? [laughs] Why are you putting every interviewer on the spot by saying that out loud? Yeah, I wasn't... I, I, I, I often jump in and go, "I'll say it for you so you don't get in trouble." Um, the book actually, it didn't start out as a book. It, it started out as a list of things that