An ode to the 1960s and ’70s is how a Central Otago musician describes her first album Mythology of the Girls . Raised near St Bathans artist Janie Shaw, known as Just Janie, said her debut album "reacts to nostalgia through a modern lens". The eight-track album was written over a number of years then recorded alongside her band. "The songs kind of became drip-fed. "I’d write a song here and there until over time I realised there was a bit of passion between them." Shaw said Joni Mitchell was a large inspiration for her music. "Joni opened something inside of me and the songs just started to fall out. Shaw had attended university studying education and psychology where she tried to write "surf rock band music". "It didn’t feel authentic, I felt like I was hitting roadblocks. "Coming across that very ’70s folk music changed my perspective to ‘if I love my music then hopefully someone else will love it’," she said.…