FROZEN Rabbit is an unusual title for an album and Felicity Urquhart said that's entirely the point.
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It's the country artist's first studio album in a decade and finally she's out on her own from behind the microphone at ABC Saturday Night Country or flanked by good friends and band mates Kevin Bennett and Lyn Bowtell.
"It's been 10 years but I haven't sat idle, there's been a whole swag of things going on," Urquhart said.
"Coming back to solo me was lovely, the time off was a great inspiration because life changes and it changed for me in a big way, I got married and had kids.
"It's been a continual learning process with Kevin Bennett [who she affectionately calls 'KB'] and Lyn, all the good things have rubbed off on me."
Tamworth Country Music Festival goers would have had a taste of Urquhart's solo project at the start of the year.
One of her favourite songs off the album is Where the Fruit Hangs Low, a nod to her mother's experience growing up in Bingara.
Every year the small town celebrates the Orange Tree Festival, planted as a living memory to the village's fallen soldiers in WWI and WWII.
When July rolls around the local school children, 'the orange police', harvest the fruit in a memorial that has been carried on from one generation to the next.
Urquhart's mother was one of the children who planted the original grove in the 1960s.
"That was passed on to my sister and I, the significance of the trees," she said.
"Any passing tourists who think they can help themselves are caught out.
"Shanley Del joins me on this song in round, I learned to sing in rounds at school and loved it so I wanted this song to have that."
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In a different place in her life, Urquhart believes this is one of her most authentic works, littered with the sound of acoustic, fiddle, banjo, mandolin, electric vocals and drums.
This one is incredibly special because it features the voice of the late Karl Broadie, Urquhart said.
"When we wrote Slow It Down I recorded it early on thinking I would have an album not long after my last one," she said.
"It was before he got cancer so we were so very lucky we kept that one.
"It's lovely to still have Karl a part of our special song, I feel he checks in on all his mates."
Urquhart will be back for a show with Brad Butcher during Tamworth Hats Off to Country Festival at The Pub on July 13.