Debbie Porter and Dave Stanley
Debbie Porter is a Louisiana girl living on a lake in rural east Texas. She grew up with the tunes her grandmother sang in the cotton fields and the country music greats she heard on the Louisiana Hayride. Debbie created the Dulcimers for David project to honor David Schnaufer. The project provides instruments to young people across the country through CD and DVD sales and donations. Her original song Hard Driving Rain won the Songwriting category at the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield a few years ago and she loves to teach the “user-friendly” mountain dulcimer and ukulele.
Debbie has been creating instructional books and DVDs for several years and has produced 8 CDs, 6 for dulcimer and 2 for ukulele. Her Treasury of Tunes book for mountain dulcimer contains tab for 60 songs and includes a CD. Her latest solo recording, Still Dreamin’ features great familiar jazz tunes played on baritone ukulele accompanied by wonderful blues and jazz musicians. Tunes include: Ain’t Misbehavin, Dream a Little Dream, Exactly Like You, I’m gonna sit right down and write myself a letter and more.
David Stanley is a versatile bassist, producer, songwriter, and Texas music legend whose career spans more than six decades. Born in Tyler, Texas, David has performed with a long list of notable artists and has made television appearances on The Midnight Special, That’s Incredible, Video Country on TNN, and a BBC-produced special, and toured or appeared in concert with legends such as Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, Bonnie Raitt, Jimmy Buffett, Steely Dan, and even John Belushi.
In 1988, David joined his brother Larry Stanley and Ken “Nardo” Murray to form L.S.B.K. Music and launch The Lone Star Ramblers, a high-energy country-comedy group that backed Dolly Parton and performed and appeared in commercials for Dollywood. He appeared on the TNN special Sunset Music Fest with Dolly Parton, recorded ten albums, produced two videos, and became a longtime favorite at the Texas State Fair with support from Southwest Airlines.
Debbie and Dave have recently released an album together called Love, Making Music, available here for digital download.
