Raised near St Bathans, artist Janie Shaw, known as Just Janie, said her debut album "reacts to nostalgia through a modern lens".
The eight-track album was written over a number of years then recorded alongside her band.
"The songs kind of became drip-fed.
"I’d write a song here and there until over time I realised there was a bit of passion between them."
Shaw said Joni Mitchell was a large inspiration for her music.
"Joni opened something inside of me and the songs just started to fall out.
Shaw had attended university studying education and psychology where she tried to write "surf rock band music".
"It didn’t feel authentic, I felt like I was hitting roadblocks.
"Coming across that very ’70s folk music changed my perspective to ‘if I love my music then hopefully someone else will love it’," she said.
Touring six locations across the country this month including a Wānaka Show, Shaw said touring was one of her favourite things about being a musician.
"I really just love interacting with people and meeting all the people that come to the shows.
"I am more of a lyricist, so I really love to get to sing the songs and then talk about them afterwards with people."
She was "really lucky" her parents encouraged her to follow creative pursuits, she said.
"We were really lucky they encouraged that I guess in an environment where it was really common for the kids to do sports growing up and take over the farms.
"I’ve gone into my adult years with the support of from my family around music, which has encouraged me to keep going with it."
Shaw and her band will be playing at Rhyme and Reason in Wānaka on May 16.
She will also be playing the Tussock Country music festival in Gore later this month.
