title: Circus Girl (album)
text: # Circus Girl (album)
  
  Circus Girl is the fifth studio album from Australian country music artist Sherrié Austin and was released independently on November 15, 2011.
  
  ## Background
  
  The album is portrayed as a group of tales analyzed by a powerful female, about females, and on behalf of females. Austin felts that the work was something her female supporters have been requesting for years.
  
  "The last few years I had been complaining about the fact that there weren’t any females speaking to women above the age of 30, so I started thinking about how I was writing my songs and came up with the idea for “Friday Night Girls" ...I wanted to write a three-minute song with every Sex and the City episode that had ever existed, so I did. I quickly noticed that the women in my audiences loved it and so I switched my songwriting focus for a while to concentrate on that audience, who are my peers, to speak to them,” says Austin.
  
  The final track on the album, "Naughty or Nice", was co-written by Shane Stevens.
  
  ## Personnel
  
  * Sherrié Austin - vocals
  * Jim Hyatt - bass
  * Joel Key - banjo, acoustic guitar, mandolin
  * Wayne Killius - drums
  * Mike Rojas - keyboards
  * Adam Shoenfeld - electric guitar
  * Shane Stevens - backing vocals
  * Russell Terrell - backing vocals
  