If Hank Williams and his mentor, Fred Rose, came back to life in top form, they could not have crafted a more soulful array of songs than singer Teea Goans presents here in her debut album, The Way I Remember It. Goans sweetly plaintive voice comes at you like a beam of light through utter darkness. She doesn t simply sing country music, she delivers its very essence. While Goans is clearly the star of the album, it is very much a communal triumph, beginning with producer Terry Choate and associate producer Joe Spivey. Choate was the Director of A&R; for Capitol Records during the phenomenal rise of Garth Brooks and has lately distinguished himself as producer of Larry Gatlin and The Gatlin Brothers adventurous album Pilgrimage, as well as the Grammy-nominated and Emmy-winning Jumpin Time CD/DVD by the 11-member Western Swing ensemble, The Time Jumpers. Spivey, a multi-instrumentalist and long-time leader of John Anderson s band, is now a stalwart in The Time Jumpers crew of Nashville superpickers.  Goans, Choate and Spivey spent more than a year selecting the 11 songs on this album. Naturally, they turned to the master composers, most of whom are members of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. From the great Ernest Tubb came Walking The Floor Over You. Willie Nelson contributed I m Still Not Over You, Merle Haggard and Red Lane I Didn t Mean To Love You, Bill Anderson Walk Out Backwards, Curly Putman and Sonny Throckmorton Made For Loving You, Hank Cochran, Red Lane and Dale Dodson He ll Be Back, Joe Allen Lying In My Arms, Rick Holt and Red Lane, Same Ol Song And Dance, Jim Owen Two Arms, Two Lips, Too Lonely, Too Long, Jim McBride, Don Poythress and Jerry Salley I Don t Do Bridges Anymore and Angela Kaset and Rob Crosby Letter From God. It s hard to imagine a more lyrical lineup. In a stroke of good fortune at which Goans still marvels, Choate was able to enlist Dan Tyminski, of Alison Krauss Union Station band, to serve as her vocal partner on the tender Made For Loving You. --Edward Morris