OHIO singer-songwriter Kim Richey plays the Everything Good Goes cafe bar and coffee shop, in Westgate, Tadcaster, on Wednesday at 8pm.

Grammy nominee Kim, 61, is on a 12-date autumn tour promoting her eighth studio album, Edgeland, produced in Nashville by Brad Jones, whose credits include Josh Rouse.

She was joined in the recording studio by a who’s who of Nashville players, such as multi-instrumentalists Dan Dugmore, Pat Sansone, Dan Cohen and Doug Lancio; drummer Jerry Roe; guitarist Robyn Hitchcock and string arranger Chris Carmichael.

Making Richey's follow-up to 2013's Thorn In My Heart, they recorded 12 original compositions that featured songwriting collaborations with Maendo Sanz; Mike Henderson; Bill Deasy; Al Anderson; Jenny Queen; Harry Hoke; Chuck Prophet and Pat McLaughlin, who played guitar and mandolin respectively on the record.

By comparison with all those names, Kim is touring with only one musician. Northern Irish singer-songwriter Ben Glover. "We''re calling it the Shorebound To Edgeland tour, because it's an acoustic duo tour where we're playing together, trading songs from our new records, Ben's Shorebound and my Edgeland record," says Kim. "Ben's from the seaside village of Glenarm but moved to Nashville and we met through through the songwriter world here, where he's part of the Orphan Brigade Project, and we collaborated on the song Ride The River on his album."

Kim had settled in Nashville in 1988. "I didn't do music for a long time after leaving university, and I didn't get a record deal till I was 37. I had a degree in environmental education, so I first worked in nature centres and cooked in restaurants too," she says.

Kim had lived in Colorado,Washington State and Bogota, Colombia, for a "tiny bit", but country music would eventually win out, leading to her self-titled debut album in 1995; Bitter Sweet in 1997; Glimmer, 1999; Rise, 2002; Chinese Boxes, 2007; Wreck Your Wheels, 2010; Thorn In My Heart, 2013, and now Edgeland.

"The way I heard about the word 'Edgeland', a writer I follow on Twitter had used it to describe the place where the city meets the country. I liked that word and maybe I do live in Edgeland, because I don't have a home right now, as all my stuff is in storage because I'm touring all the time," says Kim.

"That space that's neither here nor there is the most interesting; it's the place where novelists write about and films focus on."

Maybe too, Edgeland is the place Kim occupies as a songwriter and musician, who has written for Mary Chapin Carpenter, Gretchen Peters, Patty Loveless and Jim Lauderdale and sung on Jason Isbell’s Southeastern album, as well as records by Ryan Adams and Shawn Colvin.

"I was really lucky to be signed in the first place at that age [37], and ever since I started making records, no-one has told me what record to make or who to work with," she says. "I was kind of left to my own devices, which is the better way for me."

For tickets. go to everythinggoodgoes.com.