Social isolation hasn't stopped one award-winning country music singer-songwriter from launching a new album - over a Nundle windowsill.
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John Krsulja's Burden of the Fool won't be released fully until June, but the Nundle guitarist couldn't wait to give out some early release CDs to locals.
The golden guitar-winning singer-songwriter will today launch his second album at Nundle's Guesthouse windowsill.
He hoped it would be a "positive" opportunity for the community to escape isolation.
"I haven't learnt another language or learnt how to cook in isolation," he said.
"I've kept myself busy, but time has slowed down and it gave me the energy needed to prepare for this album."
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Burden of the Fool is his masterwork, the musician said.
The album's 11 songs written over a three and a half year period are all based on his life experiences.
It's a heartfelt and real album in an alt-country style, he said.
The album was the last for late great country music producer Glen Hannah.
Half the tracks were recorded with the legendary music technician just weeks before he passed away last year, before the album was finished off by Matt Fell.
The two studio recordings were radically different, one a band session with the other acoustic, both recorded near-live.
They made the decision to marry the two sessions into one complete work for the album.
"I don't know how it does it, I just put down to the production," he said.
"And also the songs and the order.
"It just takes you somewhere and really gets you thinking."
The Jenkins Street Guesthouse will serve food through one window, with Mr Krsulja signing the album through the other.
The whole event will be socially distanced.
"It's so old-school,
"In the day of digital to have something that you can hold and touch and read the lyrics, it gives it a bit more of a personal touch.
"That's what this album is, it's a journey."