Becky Buller Releases Songs That Sing Me

Songs That Sing Me, Becky Buller’s first covers album, puts a spin on the concept. Rather than simply her take on familiar favorites audiences already know by heart, she has compiled a collection of songs that have meant the most to her, songs that she says “sing me into being.” Some, in fact, have been with her for a lifetime. Her parents tell her she was exposed to “The Camel Train” while still in utero. She says they have been singing that song since the early seventies. “I always loved it because it had my name in it—Rebecca.” The album bears a strong imprint of the influence of growing up playing in what she calls a “quasi-family band,” Prairie Grass, composed of her parents and Gordy and Roxy Schultz, until Becky joined on fiddle when she was eleven or twelve. One of the band’s highest profile gigs, she says, was opening for the Dry Branch Fire Squad, from whom they learned one of her favorites, “Auction at the Home Place,” which appears on the album.