The Captain (Kasey Chambers song)

"The Captain"
"The Captain"
Single by Kasey Chambers
from the album The Captain
Released	2000 (Australia)
Recorded	1999
Genre	Country
Length	4:09
Label	EMI Music Australia
Songwriter(s)	Kasey Chambers
Producer(s)	Nash Chambers
Kasey Chambers singles chronology

"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]

Track listing

CD Maxi (724389689327)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"The Captain" (radio edit)	4:09
2.	"Water in the Fuel"	4:54
3.	"Another Lonely Day"	3:59
4.	"The Captain" (radio edit)	4:31

Charts

Chart (2000)	Peak position
ARIA Singles Chart^[5]	68

References

^ "ARIA Awards – History: Winners by Year 2000". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Archived from the original on 26 September 2007. Retrieved 21 March 2012.
^ "Previous Winners Song of the Year". Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) | Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS). Retrieved 20 February 2014.
^ Jules LeFevre. "The 200 Greatest Australian Songs Of All Time, Part One". Junkee.
^ "The Sopranos: He Is Risen Soundtracks". Imdb. Retrieved 24 January 2024.
^ Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010. Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing.

[ARIA2000-1] "ARIA Awards – History: Winners by Year 2000". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Archived from the original on 26 September 2007. Retrieved 21 March 2012.

[SongWin-2] "Previous Winners Song of the Year". Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) | Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS). Retrieved 20 February 2014.

[3] Jules LeFevre. "The 200 Greatest Australian Songs Of All Time, Part One". Junkee.

[4] "The Sopranos: He Is Risen Soundtracks". Imdb. Retrieved 24 January 2024.

[5] Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010. Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing.

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Discography Awards and nominations
Studio albums	The Captain Barricades & Brickwalls Wayward Angel Carnival Rattlin' Bones Kasey Chambers, Poppa Bill and the Little Hillbillies Little Bird Storybook Wreck & Ruin Bittersweet Dragonfly Campfire Backbone
Extended plays	Ain't No Little Girl
Singles	"The Captain "Not Pretty Enough" "Million Tears" "If I Were You" "True Colours" "Hollywood" "Pony" "Nothing at All" "Rattlin' Bones" "Luka" "Adam & Eve"
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