The singer is one third of the award-winning The McClymonts alongside younger sisters Mollie and Samantha and has also recorded an album with husband and fellow country artist Adam Eckersley. The couple kick off their national tour in February. And now their musically-inclined daughter, who starts kindergarten this year, is starting to discover her voice. 

But it’s a case of one thing at a time for the laid-back McClymont. Take, for example, Crossroads Country in the Vines at Roche Estate on March 24. The McClymonts have been named on a line-up that includes Billy Ray Cyrus, Lee Kernaghan, Kasey Chambers, John Williamson, Sara Storer, Adam Harvey, Beccy Cole, Shane Nicholson, Travis Collins, Wolfe Brothers and Amber Lawrence.

Far from being starstruck, McClymont is simply happy she can drive home to the Central Coast after the gig. This no-nonsense straight-talker with a heart of gold prefers the simple things in life – like her own bed. Being able to make music with Eckersley is the icing on the cake. McClymont is in a good place, professionally and personally.  

“We just love what we do and the fact that we actually get to do it. I mean, if you’re a muso you want a career in music – to do this as a full-time job, to do this as a living,” she says.  “We do pinch ourselves sometimes but there is a lot of hard work involved, too.”

The McClymonts tried their luck in the US in 2011 but their hearts weren’t really in it. The timing was off and they missed Australia. 

“The girls and I had to be able to say we had a go at the US market. We did it when I was in my 30s and just married, and the others were about to get married. And look, let’s be honest, it was probably something we should have done 10 years earlier,” she explains.

“But you have to live over there and we all just went, ‘Nah’. It’s not that it was all too hard and we couldn’t be bothered, it’s just that we all had other priorities in our lives at that time and we had such a great career already. Sometimes you can’t help but wonder what would have happened, but we gave it a crack and got it out of our system.

“I don’t need to be hugely popular to feel successful, I just want to make a living out of music. For me, if you do what you love that’s being successful. I’m lucky. Not everyone gets to do that. I don’t take what I do for granted at all.”

The other love of her life is her daughter, Tiggy. McClymont laughs fondly when talking about her.  

“She’s starting school next year just as Adam and I go on tour. We must be mad. But you know what? It’ll work. It’s just weekends. My daughter thinks all her friends’ parents are singers too. That’s her normal. She loves music and has got that natural ability. I love hanging out with her, she’s the coolest girl ever.”