This is soulful roots-rock and country at it's best, via California and Austin, Texas but with a unique Australian voice.
Cyndi Boste wears her hero's influences, and her heart, on her sleeve on her latest release 'Nowadays'.
It's been seven long years since her last album, the critically acclaimed 'Foothill Dandy'.
Seven years of personal turmoil,  loss,  self doubt and a deep desire to just stop for awhile and take stock.
There were times when many, including Cyndi herself, wondered whether she would ever emerge from the wreckage of a long term relationship, the death of a close friend, and a seemingly terminal loss of self belief.
However, like all great artists, the black coal of life fuelled the crucible of creation and Cyndi began to write again. Her creations not just songs, but gems.
"Whilst I probably would have wished to avoid the events that inspired some of the songs, as an artist, I'm probably better for it" admits Boste.
With the help of co-producer and friend 'Jeremy Edwards' and his incredible 'dust radio band' based in Sydney, the raw stones that she mined from her rich stream of experience have been expertly cut and polished.
Each facet reflecting the world that inspired them with stunning perfection.
Cyndi seized on the crowd funding site 'Pozible' as a vehicle to fund the recording of this album. She wondered whether her fans had moved on in her long absence.
Sixty days and $18,000 later the verdict was in. Her fans had gone nowhere.
"It was a bit scary, and exhilarating at the same time, but I just had to keep putting faith in the music I make" says Cyndi. "I'm really excited about the new album" Boste says in her typical understated way. "Nowadays is positive reaffirmation of the road so far".
Nowadays is life as it's lived, or at least as it should be. Dimensional, nuanced, reflective, optimistic, opinionated and passionate. It is also Boste at her most accessible.
A musical triumph destined to sell well both in Australia and internationally.



Songs from a bar/dive band veteran currently residing in Japan.

I enjoy learning the bass and also play a little drums

Brian Little is following