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Thursday, April 11, 2002
Singer/Songwriter Chambliss to Perform at Skylight Exchange
By Shellie Byrim
Staff Writer
For musicians, setting up shop in
Chapel Hill can be good for your musi
cal career.
Or at least that’s what Ashley
Chambliss, a 28-year-old pianist,
singer/songwriter, hopes.
Chambliss, who is performing at the
Skylight Exchange on Friday, is ventur
ing away from the piano bars in and
around her town of Asheville and com
ing to Chapel Hill to develop her career.
Dave Barry-Based 'Trouble' Partners Wit, Goats
By Nick Parker
Assistant Arts & Entertainment Editor
The makers of “Big Trouble,” at first
glance, took a
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“The Triangle is an important place to
be heard,” Chambliss said.
Even though she’s never played in the
Triangle area, Chambliss has honed her
raspy yet vulnerable voice and her dri
ven melodic sensibility throughout the
past six years as a professional musician.
Chambliss’ interest in music has
always existed despite her short perfor
mance history. She grew up with musi
cal talent in her family, with her father as
a choir director. Chambliss took some
piano lessons while she was young but
eventually began teaching herself.
mixture on celluloid.
But clearly the finished product is
well-written and funny. Or maybe they
just got lucky.
Born from the twisted mind of
columnist Dave Barry, “Big Trouble” is
fast, cute and simply hilarious. Like a
family-friendly version of “Pulp
Fiction,” it follows several different char
acters who weave together in a wild plot
“When I was 14 I started doing
my own thing,” Chambliss
said.
Despite the fact that music
has been a part of her entire
life, Chambliss didn’t begin to
write songs until the age of 21.
It was then she decided on her
professional career. “I knew
my career was definitely
music,” she said.
With her future decided,
Chambliss built her music
solely around the piano and
that ends up threatening national secu
rity.
The story is set in the uniquely pop
ulated city of Miami, where everyone
from an ambitious squeal to an adver
tising salesman end up chasing a tick
ing nuclear bomb around town. Not
funny? Wait until Stanley Tucci starts
licking his maid’s toes and dirty men
start dropping out of trees. Needless to
say, no one is safe, and the plot sweeps
in like a hurricane - sucking up all
kinds of weird stuff and dumping it hel
ter-skelter.
With a hallucinogenic toad, Patrick
Warburton (“The Tick) streaking naked
through a crowded airport, Andy
Richter drunkenly firing a gun at a trio
of teenagers, a gang of goats, a bum
named Puggy, a failing Geo and a soul
stealing Martha Stewart dog, “Big
Trouble” has everything you could ask
for and some things you thought you
would never see.
Director Barry Sonnenfeld leads the
film through a rapid-fire series of run-on
jokes and sarcastic comments that span
the entire spectrum of comedic intelli
gence. The concept of goats blocking
the runway is just plain silly, yet on the
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her voice. She believes that
individuality will make her
stand out in the music busi
ness.
“I feel like I do really have
something unique,"
Chambliss said. “I’ve devel
oped my own style. It’s differ
ent than guitar-based music.
It’s a different sound."
Chambliss went on to
describe her sound as rang
ing from pop to funk to blues
but always emotional and
Ashley Chambliss
will perform at
Skylight Exchange.
ered by Zooey Deschanel are intelligent
and carry a teenage kick.
But where “Big Trouble” really
shines is in its stellar cast - where
everyone is a comedian but no one
overacts like it. Tim Allen triumphs as
a perpetual loser, haunted by sexual
repression and a poor automobile pur
chase. He ends up an unlikely and
everyday hero.
Rounding out the cast is the undeni
able sex appeal of Rene Russo, the
unfaltering whit of Janeane Garofalo
and the baffling criminal stupidity of
Johnny Knoxville. Even Heavy D rolls
up - acting smug, tough and all pimp,
with an FBI badge no less.
Though the plot and characters are
fragmented, the integral parts weave
together smoothly. It never seems like
the writers are stretching to make the
cops show up at just the right time to
scare off an assassin and a kid with a
squirt gun.
Think “Snatch” - without the mur
der, mayhem and criminal under
ground. Or maybe “Snatch” meets
Disney - in a dark, lonely prison cell.
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poetic.
“It’s really about how I’m feeling,” she
said. “The songs that I’m writing are com
ing from an authentic place. I’m learning
my lessons and singing about that.”
Lyrics about these lessons describe
unhealthy relationships and growing
pains, but Chambliss revealed that the
driving force behind her music is the
loss of her father at the age of 2. “(It was)
the first thing that really broke my
heart,” she said.
That said, Chambliss wants to gain
experience by sharing her music and life
Christine Kane Celebrates
CD Release at Arts Center
By Sarah Kicharski
Arts & Entertainment Editor
Originally hailing from Virginia but
currently living in western North
Carolina, Christine Kane is the embod
iment of country summers, back porch
swings and Southern girls.
Her voice transposes itself from lan
guidly sauntering through fields of tall
grass to exuberant
ly jaunting across
an old wooden
dance floor.
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Christine Kane
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Saturday, April 6
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Rain and Mud and Wild and Green, Kane’s
vocal juxtapositions shone as she stood
alone on a small stage with nothing but
her wit and her guitar.
Weaving stories of blue collar work,
mother nature, love and such, Kane dis
played a talent for emotional, insightful
lyrics coupled with less-is-more guitar
playing. As she mixed the occasional
earlier album work with a majority of
songs from Rain and Mud, her develop
ment as an artist was apparent.
Her picking is more smooth, musical
and complementary to her lilting, often
wry words. Which is not to say that
Kane has not always been terrific, but
she somehow seems more comfortable
in her own skin these days.
On die upbeat lamentation of the road
work plaguing western North Carolina,
“Everything Green,” Kane utilized her
voice and guitar to their fullest. Serving as
her own percussion section, Kane inject
ed the occasional body beat into ajohn
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lessons with anew audience and gain
more support in the process.
“I’m not really familiar with the
music scene (in Chapel Hill), but I’m
hoping to stand out by playing the
keyboards,” Chambliss said. “I think
my musical approach will speak for
itself.”
Chambliss will make her Chapel Hill
debut at 9 p.m. Friday at the Skylight
Exchange.
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Cougar Mellencamp-flavored melody.
But while Kane might bear the slight
est undertones of such influential artists, it
is impossible to classify her. The closest
comparisons would be Joan Baez’s lyri
cism, Ani DiFranco’s feminine irony and
Gwen Stefani’s physical mannerisms.
In the lighthearted yet pointed social
commentary, “(No Such Thing As) Girls
like That” Kane trashed the large-bust
ed, small-waisted groupies in music
videos, lingerie models and Barbie. As
the song ended, Kane paid tribute to the
real women in the world and women
who could do a thing or two for them
selves: “My favorite girls as women
that/Are not afraid to cry and laugh/And
eat some food that’s high in fat,” she sang.
Doing a 180-degree turn from lively
country-folk, Kane took a turn as a slow
er, singer/songwriter type with an almost
painfully poignant tune, “Or Just
Heading Home.” The song is an intro
spective look at air travel, and Kane said
she was recording the song in New York
as Sept. 11 made the headlines. While the
song is not meant to be a memorial, her
voice evoked the day’s infamous story
without the lyrics themselves trying.
But no matter what story Kane wove,
happy or sad, jovial or slightly bitter, her
voiced wrapped around each member
of the audience like a soft, comforting
blanket. She sold herself as a person, as
an individual, and not a holier-than-thou
“musician” as so many of those who
have gotten a taste of fame often do.
Kane’s music is simple, friendly and
welcoming as, one would assume, she
is. As the concert drew to a close, there
was a slight feeling of loss, as if story
time was over and it was time to step
back outside into the cold, cruel world.
Yet with Kane’s voice softly ringing
in your ears and summer lurking just
around the corner, the world should
never seem cruel. Rather, it is full of
rain and mud, it is wild and green, it is
everything Christine Kane.
The Arts & Entertainment Editor can
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