Another Taber country singer  is following hot on quirky country hit-maker Corb Lund’s cowboy booted and country plains dusted heels.Dusty Dee Litchfield, 28, has just released his debut CD “All the Good Ones are Gone .”

He spent just over a year recording it  at Crossroads Studios in Lethbridge with producer Dino Caravaggio and got some straight shooting hired guns to flush out his original country-fried songs.

 Paul Kype adds some killer solos, Brad Brouwer provides drums and Tyler Bird plays upright bass. Dusty Dee plays  guitar, mandolin, dobro, banjo, bass, tin whistle and harmonica. Bryan Bradfield adds some additional dobro.

“It’s been a while in the making,” Litchfield said, adding he spent seven or eight years writing between 30-40 songs he considered good enough to record for it.

“I mostly played the songs for  family, friends and audiences and chose the ones that got the best response,” Litchfield said, who is a regular at the Lethbridge Folk Club open mics as well as at open mics at the Front Row Pub, the Slice and the Blarney Stone when they had open mics.

While he usually plays a lot of summer festivals, ( though this year he played the cowboy poetry festival in Pincher Creek) this year he was concentrating on being a  dad to his brand new  four-month old son August.

“ I just had a new  baby, so that’s taken most of my time. Between that and getting the CD done. I missed getting that set up,” said Litchfield who has a day job working for an engineering firm in Lethbridge.

“I wanted to make sure I had an album that was as professional looking and sounding as I could on my budget. I’m very pleased with it,” he continued.

“It’s mostly roots country and western music ,” Litchfield said citing Corb Lund, Kris Kristofferson and Hayes Carll as influences.

“I’ve been listening to it in my truck for the past couple weeks. And I love it,” he said adding he doesn’t have a big tour planned to support it, though he will try to gig on weekends.

“I wrote the songs before I had the baby. But It definitely provides a different outlook on life. Having a baby adds a whole new level to it.”

—Richard Amery, L.A. Beat Editor