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Barricades & Brickwalls | 
| Artist: Kasey Chambers
Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Category: Music
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Rating:  67 reviews
Sales Rank: 8367
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 48028
UPC: 093624802822
EAN: 0093624802822
ASIN: B00005V0WK
Release Date: February 12, 2002
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| Tracks:
| • | Barricades & Brickwalls | | • | Not Pretty Enough | | • | On A Bad Day | | • | Runaway Train | | • | A Little Bit Lonesome | | • | Nullarbor Song | | • | Million Tears | | • | Still Feeling Blue | | • | This Mountain | | • | Crossfire | | • | Falling Into You | | • | If I Were You | | • | I Still Pray |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
The hard-edged title cut kicking off this disc suggests that Kasey Chambers might be exploring an entirely different frontier than she did on her 2000 debut, The Captain, but the dozen tracks that follow are much more in line with the sparkling country-folk of her first album. That's good, because at this early stage in her career, there's no reason for Chambers to stray from her obvious strengths: simple but honest lyricism set to tastefully twangy instrumentation and spiked by her alternately sweet and sassy voice rising straight from the South (even if, in her case, it's South Australia). Various guest vocalists add breadth to the proceedings, with results that range from slightly disappointing (Lucinda Williams on "On a Bad Day") to effectively reflective (Paul Kelly on "I Still Pray") to wondrously evocative (Buddy Miller on "Runaway Train") to downright transcendent (Matthew Ryan on "Million Tears"). Mostly, though, it's Chambers's confidence and charm that shines brightly and clearly. --Peter Blackstock
Album Description
From one of the most acclaimed singer-songwriters to emerge in years, 'Barricades And Brickwalls' has already hit the top of the charts and is 1 1/2 times platinum in her native Australia. Wrapping her stunning voice around true-life stories, Kasey Chambers storms America's musical barricades and brickwalls with melody, emotion and wisdom. Warner Bros. Records.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 62 more reviews...
 Outstanding Sophomore Effort!! April 7, 2002
Maudeen Wachsmith (Port Townsend, WA)
20 out of 20 found this review helpful
I loved Kasey Chambers THE CAPTAIN but after the recent disappointing effort by another fave, Shelby Lynne, it was with a bit of trepidation that I listened to BARRICADES & BRICKWALLS. I'm here to say that Kasey Chambers does not disappoint. Her sophomore effort is as stunning as THE CAPTAIN and with the grammy-winning Lucinda Williams and the grammy-nominated Buddy Miller backing her up, how could she go wrong? My favorite cut is A LITTLE BIT LONESOME which sould have been a perfect song for Patsy Cline. But it is all Kasey here. I was thrilled to see her add a Gram Parsons song to this album but other than that one cut, all songs were written or co-written by the talented Ms. Chambers. Ironically, this Aussie has been called a new voice in Americana music. Well, the US only wishes they could claim her. She is absolutely amazing and if I were to describe this CD, I would call it "Julie Miller does Lucinda Williams." Aussie or not, I highly recommend Kasey Chambers to those who are fans of Americana or alternative country music.
Anybody Want To Move To Australia? February 19, 2002
Clark Paull (Murder City)
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
At the tender age of 20-something, Australia's Kasey Chambers is a certified triple-threat: a scary-good writer and performer, with a voice that angels would sell their souls for. Toiling away in the genre that some hack has christened "alt-country," Chambers' second release "Barricades & Brickwalls" raises the stakes quite a bit from her stellar debut, 1999's "The Captain," which was criminally shuffled aside in a year which saw record company-created automatons like Faith Hill and Shania Twain scaling ridiculous heights of popularity, propelled by a dangerous combination of (admittedly) good looks and fluffy pop ditties with nary a trace of twang or compassion. Chambers' songs of of defiance (the title song), self doubt ("Not Pretty Enough"), and despair ("A Little Bit Lonesome") all shine through with unflinching honesty, beauty, and grace, adjectives which haven't been used to describe country music much ever since Garth Brooks first poured himself into a pair of skin tight jeans and strapped on his Time-Life operator head set. Chambers is given stellar support on "Barricades & Brickwalls" by Lucinda Williams (to whom she is often compared, along with a young Emmylou Harris), Buddy Miller and countrymen Paul Kelly (another genius floundering in obscurity, at least in America) and The Living End (love 'em - think of a combination of early Clash and your choice of second generation rockabilly bands), but what will really haunt you and convince you she has captured lightning in a jar is that voice, alternating between tenderness, sorrow, and joy. Stunning...
 Improves on the debut June 20, 2005
Greg Brady (Capital City)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Aussie twanger Kasey Chambers put out a fine debut in THE CAPTAIN. On this one, she occasionally allows more breathing room for the guitars and dances closer to the rock end of the country-rock equation. Her voice is still the same marvelous childlike instrument (think Julie Miller) but she ups the songwriting a tad this time out. There are more tunes that lodge themselves insistently than with the first effort.
HIGHLIGHTS:
The disc kicks off with the brassy title tune, a declaration of intent as Kasey snarls "Iron bars and big ole cars/Won't run me out of town/I'll be d**ned if you're not my man/Before the sun goes down." She follows that up with the meek "Not Pretty Enough" leaving you to wonder which one is the "real" Kasey. Perhaps it's both..you get another dose of melancholy in "On a Bad Day" (Chambers' pal and backer Lucinda Williams guests on harmony) but on weeper "Little Bit Lonesome" (Chambers channeling Hank Sr.?) and "If I Were You" Chambers again insists that if her lovers don't "get" her, it's their problem. ("I'm only half of what you see...") "Crossfire" is an edgy rocker with Kasey this time playing the runaround romeo ("If you don't hate me, you'll learn to/I thought I had it clear from the start/I don't have a heart...") Perhaps the strongest track is the visceral "Ignorance" (hidden after track 13), as Chambers recoils from the world's evils. ("If you're not pissed off at the world/Then you're just not paying attention")
LOWS:
No real clunkers this time out, though "Runaway Train" sounds like a knockoff of the title track. She didn't really bring anything new to the Gram Parsons cover either. ("Still Feeling Blue")
BOTTOM LINE:
If you like alt country or Julie Miller, this is highly recommended. If you love traditional country (Loretta Lynn, George Jones, Johnny Cash) and you're looking for something new that "sounds old", you'd be well advised to give this one a listen.
just blows me away May 30, 2002
Lalalalaura (Washington, DC United States)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I bought this totally on a whim, which I never do. But thank goodness I did, because within 3 days of getting it, I must have listened to it 8 times. From the first time I heard the first song, it just had its hooks in me.First off, Kasey Chambers has a great voice -- distinctive, expressive, and capable of huge emotional range. It's not like most of the voices you hear on the radio, in the best way I can think of. Her delivery of the last few lines of "A Little Bit Lonesome," for instance, makes me want to laugh. And how many people could measure up when singing with someone like Lucinda Williams, as Kasey Chambers does on "On a Bad Day"? And then she's a great songwriter, in at least 4 different styles. "Barricades & Brickwalls" is pretty much rock, while "Nullarbor Song" is like a lullabye, "A Little Bit Lonesome" is old-style country, and so on. There is not a single song here that I dislike, and I pretty much love at least 12 of the 14 (there's an unnumbered final track after "I Still Pray," at least on the copy of this I have). The last time a CD gave me anything like the same urge to run around telling everyone I talked to that they needed to go out and buy it RIGHT NOW, it was the "Oh Brother Where Art Thou" soundtrack. This might just be better, and it's more impressive since it's a single artist rather than one or two great songs from several.
This is how country music ought to sound March 3, 2002
Erica Anderson (Minneapolis, MN)
11 out of 13 found this review helpful
I have been hearing nothing but good things about Kasey Chambers and her second album "Barricades & Brickwalls" so naturally I was curious to hear this album for myself. Being a fan of non-traditional country artists like Lucinda Williams and Ryan Adams, I was more than willing to check out Kasey Chambers. If this was Shania Twain or Faith Hill I would have avoided them like the plague. I don't like polish, overproduced country music that could also be mistaken for pop music. I like that sense of authenticism and I definitely like that country twang I heard on "Barricades & Brickwalls". Kasey Chambers' voice bears a striking resemblence to Alison Krauss a bit in my opinion. The songs are a stunning collection of country/rock songs that any person can relate to. I can hear the warmth and heartache throughout the songs. The title track I didn't really think was all that special. "Not Pretty Enough" is my standout track on this entire album. I can totally relate to that songs. There have been times when I don't feel pretty enough as does anyone else who has heard this song. "A Million Tears" is a gorgeous ballad. Title track aside, this entire album is excellent. It is definitely an early contender for best album of 2002 even if it was released in 2001.
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