Award-winning Australian country music singer Kasey Chambers has announced the release of her first solo album in four years, titled Little Bird.

It’ll be the sixth album for the 34-year-old “The Captain” singer, the follow-up to her platinum selling 2008 collaboration with husband Shane Nicholson, Rattlin’ Bones, as well as her most recent release – a 2009 children’s book/project, titled Kasey Chambers, Poppa Bill and The Little Hillbillies.

“I think it is the most fun I have ever had making an album and the result is something I am so proud of,” says Kasey of the new disc, which she co-produced alongside a new band she’s put together for the record, the Millionaires. The group features former Midnight Oil member Jim Moginie, dad Bill and brother Nash, as well as Nicholson, Jeff McCormack and John Watson. “I have written every song on the album and styles cross from country, folk, pop and everything in between! This record reminds me of the same feeling that The Captain and Barricades gave me. It’s all about songs, home-grown sounds and a feeling that sails throughout the entire album.”

“I have never been quite as inspired to write as I was a few months ago,” she continues, “and that is why this album has crept up on me so quickly. In February I had one song that I had written last year but was not thinking at all about writing more, then all of a sudden songs just started flowing out of me.  Within 12 days I had 14 songs and they just kept coming.  I wasn’t even sure where they came from.  I was writing in and around my daily life (which I used to find difficult) – cooking dinner, making school lunches, doing gigs, swimming lessons, feeding children, writing lyrics, humming melodies.“

Little Bird is set for release on Friday 17 September.