The Songs of Beulah Rowley came to me through a magical accident. A depression era singer and songwriter, Beulah achieved regional fame performing at her father’s Michigan cinema and touring county fairs in the Midwest. Tragically, she died at just 21 years of age in a house fire, but her songs and story survived in a locked, wrought-iron piano bench that travelled over the decades through flea markets and families till it landed in my own. On my tenth birthday, my father pried the bench open for me and there I found them: Beulah’s songs and diaries all carefully preserved. I fell in love with the melodies and words, figuring them out on the bench where she wrote them. I decided I must one day become a famous singer and bring her songs and story back to the world where they belonged. And now, with a lot of help from my friends, here they are for you: the Songs of Beulah Rowley.