Kasey Chambers' touring life was once filled with posh hotels, room service dinners, airport lounges and trips in the pointy end of the plane.
It was exactly those usual measures of fame and success that made her realise something was missing.
Chambers felt an undeniable pull back to her roots, having spent much of her early childhood in the back of her family's Land Cruiser as her dad made a living hunting foxes on the Nullarbor Plain.
So two years ago the 14-time ARIA award winner bought a Chevy pick-up truck and a caravan, which has become her home on tour.
"I feel like I'm living my authentic life now - I got gradually further and further away from that without even noticing," Chambers told AAP.
"I just kept following the trail success was leading me to without checking that it really matched up with who I am."
She has been known to drive 13 hours between gigs.
And though the convenience has disappeared, Chambers has gained something far more valuable than luxury.
"We light a campfire, cook our meals and sit around the fire with my kids," she said.
"My heart and soul is filled up."
That is abundantly clear on her 13th album Backbone, which opens with a soaring track called A New Day Has Come.
An eight-minute live cover of rapper Eminem's Lose Yourself closes the record, reimagined with Chambers' raw feminine power.
An enigmatic connection emerges deep within herself and with her audience when she performs the song, something almost stronger than any of her own tracks.
"I don't know where I go, but it's this place ... that shows me emotion can carry anything and can change you as a person," Chambers said.
"Just for those seven minutes that song is mine - I'm sorry Eminem, I just borrow it."
The album is a companion piece to her memoir Just Don't Be A D***head: And Other Profound Things I've Learnt, traversing a quarter of a century in the music business alongside motherhood, love, heartbreak and divorce.
"Just don't be a d***head" is an expression her father, musician Bill Chambers, often used when raising her.
While it may sound glib, it's a sentiment Chambers has come to live by.
It was key to navigating divorce from her former husband, singer-songwriter Shane Nicholson.
More than a decade after their split, the pair wrote Chambers' new single The Divorce Song together via text message.
Though the pair are on good terms personally, Chambers did not expect their creative spark to return.
"We went through some pretty s***, horrible times through divorce and there were moments I thought we'd never even be friends again. It's been a beautiful journey," Chambers said.
"Don't get me wrong, it's not perfect, we still have our moments and we still behave like d***heads sometimes."
Chambers let out her trademark full belly laugh: "I do on a daily basis."
