By Kathy McCabe

Daily Telegraph 

SINGER-songwriter Kasey Chambers is practising slinging her guitar sideways for upcoming gigs as she prepares for the birth of her second child.

Chambers - who had a son, Talon, 4, with former partner Cori Hopper - yesterday said she and singer-songwriter husband Shane Nicholson are now expecting their first child together.

The couple celebrated their first wedding anniversary last weekend and Chambers said her husband was spoiling her rotten.

"We are absolutely over the moon and couldn't be happier," she said on her website yesterday. "Shane is so excited too, of course, and is looking after me very well. I'm getting spoilt  ... sleep-ins most mornings, dinner made for me."

The beloved singer, whose latest album Carnival unveiled a move away from her country music roots, said she will finish touring after her star turn at the East Coast Blues and Roots festival in Byron Bay next Easter.

Before then, she stages her annual Live, Free and In The Park concert on Australia Day in Tamworth, with guest Missy Higgins.

"It's gonna be so much fun," she said of the shows.

"Then in April we are playing Byron Bay. This is one of my favourite festivals in the world and it will be my eighth year of playing at it, but my 10th year in a row of being there.

"I played there in 2002 with Talon quite big in my belly and this year will be quite similar."