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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