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Sample the Music

• Hey Good Lookin' (0:29)
• Anytime (0:41)
• I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry (0:42)
• I Saw The Light (0:46)

Front Cover

The front cover is a photograph of a bench made from old fence posts and birdhouses sitting in a field of bluebonnets, behind which is a mountain range and clear-blue western sky. Three ukuleles stand on the bench – one made from blond wood, another of dark walnut, and the third (a silver-colored Dixie Banjo-Uke) made of metal.

Liner Notes

Deb Porter has proven that the ukulele and country music were made for each other. — Jumpin' Jim Beloff

The ukulele and the pedal steel each have their roots in the beautiful Hawaiian Islands. Though Jimmie Rodgers played ukulele on his records in the 1920s, the uke faded from country music. The steel guitar became a mainstay with many of the finest country classics instantly identifiable by the initial steel guitar licks. The great Lloyd Maines plays styles of Tom Brumley, Buddy Emmons and others who made the pedal steel famous.

Saturday nights in Mooringsport, Louisiana were spent dancing in the kitchen with my grandmother to the music of Webb Pierce, Faron Young, Jim Reeves, Johnny Cash, Elvis and other country artists broadcast from the Louisiana Hayride only 20 miles away in Shreveport. Many of these performers hung out during the day at Stan's Record Shop and I remember Webb Pierce calling across the store for my grandmother to come listen to his latest recording. I dreamed at this early age of making a record of great country tunes.

Acknowledgements

This recording was a joy to make and I'd like to thank Bradley Kopp at Red Boot Ranch for engineering, playing bass, throwing in a harmony vocal, and for introducing me to Lloyd Maines. Much gratitude goes to Lloyd for playing pedal steel and having a good time with us ukulele players. As always Andrew Hardin was great and got notes out of soprano ukulele that we didn't know were there. Thanks to Bob Guz for leading the rhythm section, especially on "Hey Good Lookin." Thank you to Lorrie Singer, a great vocalist, and to Gigi Benno, for contributing harmony to the project. And always thank you to my husband, Richard for playing harmonica.

Jim and Liz Beloff deserve special thanks for encouraging me to record these wonderful country songs and for promoting the ukulele world wide. http://www.fleamarketmusic.com

This recording is dedicated to my beautiful, talented daughter, Autumn Lyric—always the song in my heart.