In 2024, the great Australian singer-songwriter Kasey Chambers released her first album in six years, Backbone. On one of the tracks from that album, she is joined by her ex-husband Shane Nicholson on “The Divorce Song.”
Understandably, songs about divorce are usually sad songs. For example, one of the greatest divorce songs is Tammy Wynette’s recording of “D-I-V-O-R-C-E.” That song, written by Bobby Braddock and Curly Putman, recounts a mother talking about her impending divorce but spelling out key words so her four-year-old son does not understand what is happening.
By contrast, Kasey Chambers’ “The Divorce Song” takes a humorous and touching look at two ex-spouses. The song captures the unique friendship that can eventually develop from two people apart who once were married.
Chambers and Nicholson previously released the album Rattlin’ Bones in 2008 and the album Wreck and Ruin in 2012. I loved those albums, so I was sad to hear the two singers had parted ways and that we might not hear any future collaborations.
But sometimes the end is not the end. And now we have Chambers’s and Nicholson’s sweet voices touching us once again with a little bit of humor
It’s a long road to get to the gold;
We made it through paper and wood;
We couldn’t survive as the marrying kind,
But we do divorce pretty good.
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