Bill Chambers signs global publishing deal with Checked Label/Kobalt

Country music singer-songwriter, performer, multi-instrumentalist and producer Bill Chambers has signed a global publishing deal with Checked Label Services/Kobalt Music Publishing.

Chambers earlier developed a relationship with Checked Label Services when it released his last three albums – Drifting South (2009), Live At The Pub Tamworth (2013) and Cold Trail (2016).

It also re-released the earlier Sleeping With The Blues and Frozen Ground albums.

Says Chambers, “I’ve had a great working relationship with Will Osland at the Checked Label Services Group for many years.

“I believe this is the right time to hand him the job of looking after my publishing as well.

“I look forward to continuing a great working relationship with him”.

Group managing director Will Osland recounts, “Bill has been with me from the beginning as one of my first signings and easily one of my first supporters.

“It has been my privilege to work with him over the last 10+ years and achieve the results we have achieved together.

“His passion for music is not only shown in his career, but through the way he motivates and uplifts other artists … and me!

“I’m so pleased that I can continue not only being part of his music career at a recording and publishing level, but his friend as well.”

Chambers was born in Southend, South Australia.

“Living in the outback, I learned everything from listening to the radio and to records. I don’t know anything about the technical side of things.”

In recent years, his records have included a number of honky tonk tracks – “just so we remember where country music came from.

“It’s nice when people bring rock, and jazz and swing and folk into country music, as long as we don’t forget its start.”

Chambers married fellow-singer Diane at the age of 20, and they gigged together.

Soon they were joined by their son Nash and daughter Kasey and they toured together as The Dead Ringer Band.

When the marriage dissolved, so did the band, and Chambers moved to Sydney, set up Reckless Records and began producing records.

The Chambers more recently have worked as a family unit, behind Kasey’s high profile solo career which has opened up in America, and Nash’s production work which has taken him to Nashville.