The Captain (Kasey Chambers song)
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{{Infobox song
| name = The Captain
| cover = The_Captain_by_Kasey_Chambers_(single).jpg
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = Kasey Chambers
| album = The Captain
| released = {{Start date|df=yes|2000}} (Australia)
| recorded = 1999
| studio =
| venue =
| genre = Country
| length = 4:09
| label = EMI Music Australia
| writer = Kasey Chambers
| 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history/year/2000 |title=ARIA Awards – History: Winners by Year 2000 |publisher=Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) |accessdate=21 March 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926235639/http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history-by-year.php?year=2000 |archivedate=26 September 2007 }}
The song won the "Most Performed Country Work" and was nominated for "Song of the Year" at the APRA Music Awards of 2001.{{cite web | url = http://www.apra-amcos.com.au/APRAAwards/APRASongoftheYear/PreviousWinners.aspx | title = Previous Winners Song of the Year | publisher = Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) | Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS) | accessdate = 20 February 2014 }}
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."{{cite web| work= Junkee | title=The 200 Greatest Australian Songs Of All Time, Part One|author=Jules LeFevre| url=https://junkee.com/longform/200-greatest-australian-songs-part-one}}
The song was used over the closing credits of the Season 3 episode of The Sopranos, He Is Risen.{{cite web |title=The Sopranos: He Is Risen Soundtracks |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0705251/soundtrack/?ref_=tt_trv_snd |website=Imdb |access-date=24 January 2024}}
Track listing
{{Track listing
| all_writing =
| headline = CD Maxi (724389689327)
| title1 = The Captain
| note1 = radio edit
| length1 = 4:09
| title2 = Water in the Fuel
| length2 = 4:54
| title3 = Another Lonely Day
| length3 = 3:59
| title4 = The Captain
| note4 = radio edit
| length4 = 4:31
}}
Charts
| class="wikitable"
! Chart (2000) ! Peak |
| ARIA Singles Chart{{cite book|last=Ryan|first=Gavin|title=Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010|year=2011|publisher=Moonlight Publishing|location=Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia}}
|align="centre"|68 |
References
{{Reflist}}
{{Kasey Chambers}}
Category:ARIA Award-winning songs
Category:Songs written by Kasey Chambers
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