The Captain (Kasey Chambers song) explained

The Captain
Cover:The_Captain_by_Kasey_Chambers_(single).jpg
Type:single
Artist:Kasey Chambers
Album:The Captain
Released: (Australia)
Recorded:1999
Genre:Country
Length:4:09
Label:EMI Music Australia
Producer:Nash Chambers
Prev Title:Cry Like a Baby
Prev Year:2000
Next Title:Runaway Train
Next Year:2001

"The Captain" is a country song performed and written by Kasey Chambers and produced by her brother, Nash Chambers. It was released in 2000 as the third and final single from her first studio album, The Captain (1999).

Reception

At the ARIA Music Awards of 2000, the song won Chambers an ARIA Award for Best Female Artist and was nominated for Single of the Year.[1] The song won the "Most Performed Country Work" and was nominated for "Song of the Year" at the APRA Music Awards of 2001.[2]

Junkee said, "Those who find Kasey Chambers’ distinctive twang too much for their ears are depriving themselves of a true joy. Her timid, cracking vocal carries the gorgeous ‘The Captain’, as perfect a country-pop song as there ever was."[3]

The song was used over the closing credits of the Season 3 episode of The Sopranos, He Is Risen.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: ARIA Awards – History: Winners by Year 2000 . Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) . 21 March 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070926235639/http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history-by-year.php?year=2000 . 26 September 2007 .
  2. Web site: Previous Winners Song of the Year . Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) | Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS) . 20 February 2014 .
  3. Web site: Junkee . The 200 Greatest Australian Songs Of All Time, Part One. Jules LeFevre.
  4. Web site: The Sopranos: He Is Risen Soundtracks . Imdb . 24 January 2024.
  5. Book: Ryan, Gavin. Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010. 2011. Moonlight Publishing. Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia.