RATTLIN BONES represents the start of a musical partnership that once more emphasizes Kasey Chambers title as Australia's greatest alt-country performer, and which introduces Shane Nicholson as the perfect foil for her as a songwriter, singer and multi-instrumentalist. For Kasey, it's a return to a sound that draws deep on the roots of country music, songs of yearning and hurt and hope, a place like life where joy and sorrow walk close at hand. This is premium grade Alt-Country, an album that can sit proudly on the shelf beside classics from the likes of Gram Parsons, Emmylou Harris and Gillian Welch.