Since last year's Jam Kasey and Shane have been involved in their own projects.

Shane released his critically acclaimed album, “Familiar Ghosts”, and Kasey has been busy promoting her latest collaboration with dad, Bill Chambers and all the kids in her extended family, “Kasey Chambers, Poppa Bill & The Little Hillbillies”.

A man who needs no introduction, James Reyne holds the title of being one of the most long term iconic figures on the Australian music scene. James' musical career initially took hold in the early 80's when he and some friends formed the band Australian Crawl.

With his prolific song writing and unique vocal style, James led Australian Crawl to the top of the Australian music scene. Australian Crawl achieved a success that assured them a place in Australian music history.

After the band split in 1986, James spent some time in the United States and Europe, returning to Australia in 1988.?His first self-titled solo album went triple platinum and included three top 10 singles. In the following years James released two more solo albums, “HARD REYNE” and “ELECTRIC DIGGER DANDY”, which effortlessly mirrored the success of the first.

James joined country music star James Blundell and recorded the classic Dingoes song "WAY OUT WEST" which exploded into the number 1 position on the Australian charts.

Throughout his career James has appeared in several and varied theatrical, film and television productions and concert events, the more visible of these including “Return To Eden”, “Tina; What's Love Got To Do With It?”, television drama “State Coroner” and “The Little Shop Of Horrors”.

Bill “father of Kasey” Chambers is one of those growling singers who owes a substantial debt to both Bob Dylan and John Prine. Perhaps it’s a result of those early weathered years he spent “roughing it” in the outback with his family. “My kids Nash and Kasey grew up listening only to the music I played on cassettes or on my guitar around the campfire. Songs of Hank Williams, the Carter Family, Johnny Cash, Jackson Browne and John Prine”…Remembers Bill. “I’m entirely self taught, guess that’s why I sound like I do.”

The patriarch of the Chambers clan is considered by some to be Australia’s premier alt-country guitarist. He can be a master of delicate picking on Dobro or Lap Steel and a demon on Slide.

Born of a Tongan mother and Australian father, Vika and Linda grew up in Victoria but maintained close links to the Tongan community. As children they were always around music and enjoyed singing with the family and also at the Tongan church they attended. They learned singing and harmonies from their mother, but they both have had musical training - Vika had singing lessons for a couple of years as well as learning to play the piano and read music.

Their big musical break came in 1988 when Joe Camilleri took the girls into The Black Sorrows as backing singers. Vika was prominent on a couple of their big singles and their reputation grew. During their time with The Black Sorrows, they also performed on other people's songs - people such as Hunters and Collectors, John Farnham, Seven Stories and Archie Roach. Whilst working on the Archie Roach's album, they met and started working with Paul Kelly.

After 6 years with the Black Sorrows, they felt it was time to take the next logical step, which was to be lead singers in their own band. Six months after having left the Black Sorrows, they released their debut album called Vika and Linda. The album was produced by Paul Kelly and reached gold status quickly and then certified platinum.

In 1995, they went touring around Europe with their band, and during their month in England, they spent a week at Peter Gabriel's studio recording the album, The Mouth Of The River.

Their next album, Princess Tabu, was co-produced with Diesel and Jeremy Allom. This album was mostly material that they had written along with collaborators such as Paul Kelly, Tim Finn, Michael Barker (their drummer), and Diesel.

In 1999 came the release of Two Wings an album of spiritual songs. The album was produced by Paul Kelly and Renée Geyer and contains songs penned by such people as Bob Marley, Paul Kelly, Archie Roach and Tim Rogers.

In 2002 they bought out their next album entitled Love Is Mighty Close. Since its release, the sisters concentrated more on their gospel roots. They performed a three month residency at the Cornish Arms where they played and recorded many gospel tunes. The result of those gigs was the album Tell The Angels which was released in 2004.

As a young teen, Matt's great musical love was for the alt country sounds of bands like Wilco and Whiskeytown, and for artists like Grant Lee Buffalo, Neil Young, Gram Parsons, Bob Dylan, Ryan Adams and of course, Johnny Cash.

“I was just drawn to anything raw, anything real with great lyrics or melodies,” Matt says. “Country music, being such an honest form of music, lends itself to the songwriter. It really resonates with me.” But there was too big of a world out there to stay still for long, so Matt set out on his voyage of discovery.

His wanderlust took him trekking through Asia, Europe and North America, where he immersed himself in the various cultures, formed bands and always wrote new material. Now Matt has taken musical root in Melbourne and is again writing songs that are too beautiful to keep to himself. He's formed a new band, and after a year or so gigging around Melbourne together, the Matt Joe Gow band already sound as though they've known each other for years.

In September 2008, they signed with Liberation Music and entered Melbourne's Sing Sing Studios to start work on their debut long player under the watchful eye of producer Nash Chambers.

“Our idea was to create a recording that was raw and in keeping with our style. We wanted to make an accurate representation of our live sound,” Matt explains.