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Dead Ringer Band
Australian country music band
Dead Ringer Band were an Australian family country music band.[1] They are best known for their ARIA Award-winning album Home Fires which won the Best Country Album at the ARIA Music Awards of 1996.[2]
Background and formation
Dead Ringer Band had its roots in the husband and wife team of Bill and Diane Chambers.
Dead ringer band biography
Shortly after the birth of their second child Kasey in 1976, and with their three-year-old son Nash, the family moved to central Australia's Nullarbor Plain. The Chambers earned a living by hunting and trapping rabbits and foxes that raided Nullarbor poultry farms, then selling the pelts.
The Chambers home-schooled Nash and Kasey, and taught them American folk and country music by the Carter Family, Jimmy Rogers, Hank Williams, Townes Van Zandt and Gram Parsons, as well as Australian country artists, Slim Dusty, Buddy Williams and Tex Morton.
In 1986 the family moved to Southend, located on the s