Familiar Ghosts

"I'm always writing things, out on tour, at soundchecks, and they tend to end up lying around unfinished," says Nicholson, who scored his first #1 Australian platinum selling album in 2008 in collaboration with his wife Kasey Chambers on the alt-country classic 'Rattlin' Bones'.

"When the songs aren't finished they tend to disappear because I'm always working on new stuff. But I was packing up boxes for the move and would come across these songs, lines scribbled in notebooks, on old cassettes. And I would start to play them and think, you know, these are good. How could I have forgotten about them?"

"The first time I played most of these songs through was as I recorded them, and after two weeks of that I had an album. That was the same kind of thing we did with 'Rattlin' Bones', working fast, and there's something very fresh and spontaneous about the music when you do that.''

It's Nicholson's music as naked and as honest as he's ever made it on a solo recording, with acoustic guitars, banjo, dobro and tasty slide guitars, all played by the man himself.