Bet Smith, with help from Rob and Andrew Currie and many talented friends, presents her first full-length country release, "Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is." The ten-song LP is an album inspired by the hard-working and under-appreciated folks who make the world go ‘round. Primarily written in farmers’ fields, construction sites and the back roads of rural Canada, this album reflects on Bet’s blue-collar years, labouring on small farms in British Columbia and welding on muddy hillsides in the Ontario bush. Conversations had, overheard and imagined over long days in field and brush sparked new songs that were realized in full at Bet’s first opportunity to pick up a guitar at the end of a workday. Whereas Bet’s 2015 folk EP, Loose Ends, was dark and cautionary, Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is relies on traditional country themes mixed with tongue-in-cheek humor to achieve a new level of accessibility with songs written about love, broken hearts, working hard, being poor just the same, and lessons learned on a bar stool: ten songs she hopes will speak to the backbone of rural North America, and lovers of Traditional Country and Americana. The LP’s first single, Bakesale Angel, BBQ Queen is a comical song about good-old-fashioned kitchen rivalry: competition that erupts between a jealous girlfriend and her beau’s ex. The tune was imagined up while Bet shovelled manure on a good friend’s farm – the friend being an enviably excellent cook. The recording features Miranda Mulholland of The Great Lake Swimmers on fiddle and Aaron Goldstein of Daniel Romano and the Trilliums on pedal steel. Bet’s hometown allies, The Currie Brothers hold it all together with Andrew Currie on drums and brother Rob on bass and percussive electric guitar. As a final touch, Bet talked the boys into a pots-and-pans percussion track to compliment the theme of the song. The second tune – Get In Line – from which comes the album’s title, “put your money where your mouth is,” was thought up while Bet did menial chores on a cattle farm and allowed her mind to wander to a bar interaction between a farm girl and a fake cowboy. released July 12, 2016 Produced by Rob Currie in Gravenhurst, Ontario All songs written by Bet Smith Musicians: BET SMITH: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Hammond Organ, Pot ANDREW CURRIE: Drums, Percussion, Banjo, Mandolin, Pots and Pans ROB CURRIE: Bass, Electric Guitar, Backup Vocals MIRANDA MULHOLLAND: Fiddle AARON GOLDSTEIN: Pedal Steel STEPHEN McCLELLAN: Cello CODY THOMPSON: Duet Vocals BLAIR SMITH: Backup vocals LIA LIDSTONE: Clapping, and Stomping LUKE THOMPSON: Clapping and Stomping Mastered by STEPHEN STEPANIC at Joao Carvalho Mastering in Toronto, Ontario Copyright 2016, Bet Smith. SOCAN/ASCAP Songs on this album were written in both Ontario and British Columbia, usually outdoors and often while working the land in gardens and on farms and homesteads of family and friends. Thank you so much to all of the brilliant people involved in the making of this album, and the wonderful folks who have shown me so much support in the past year. I am so grateful to you. Thank you to the Currie Brothers. Where would I be without you?