Melinda Schneider's journey across an engaging emotional terrain - which began with the confident and promising My Oxygen album in 2000 and gained inexorable momentum with the accomplished Happy Tears in 2002 and the triumphant Family Tree in 2004 - continues with album four, Stronger - her first recordings since taking out the two most prestigious gongs at the Tamworth Country Music Awards for her brash, sassy blended country - Song Of The Year (for Real People) and Album Of The Year