It's his first shot at producing, and it includes covers of Dolly Parton, Ray Price and Kitty Wells.

"It's funny, it changed as it went along," Klauder said. "It was a learning process, mostly because I was touring so much with Foghorn, I didn't have so much time in the studio. These songs have been in my head for a while, and I wanted to try them with a full band. I've worked with some of the people that are on the record, so I knew the potential."

One of Klauder's main inspirations was Hazel Zette, a 75-year-old singer he met at a fiddler's gathering in Indiana.

"She caught my ear and caught my eye in the middle of his jam of old-timers," Klauder said. "She was this precious gem of a singer that nobody cared about, and I couldn't fathom why no one paid her much attention. Even her peers.

"I ended up going out to visit her, and she taught me a whole bunch of songs," he said. "Like (Dolly Parton's) 'Rockin Years.' I was already interested in singing country music, and I had already been singing country tunes. She inspired me to do that sound."

Juneau's own Sean Tracey is responsible for the album's title. They were hanging out at a fiddler's convention in Idaho, playing Mad Libs with Klauder's 11-year-old son, when one of the phrases ended up as "Man Eating Me's and Poisonous You's."

Tracey promptly challenged Klauder to write a song titled, "Dangerous Me's and Poisonous You's." Klauder couldn't finish the tune, but decided to appropriate the title nonetheless.

Here's a look at the five covers on "Dangerous Mes":

"The Pain Of Loving You," by Dolly Parton - "I have this little tape bootleg of Emmylou Harris and Ricky Skaggs from when they played at this little hall on Orcas Island when I was a little kid. I remember when my parents went. When I was 16, I got a recording of the show from my buddy whose dad was the guy that got them up there. (The song) struck me for years, but I'd never heard the original. I finally tracked down the version with (Parton) and Porter Wagner. It's not one of her best known songs, but it should be on her greatest hits."

"Talk to Your Heart," by Ray Price - "I've been singing that one for years. Red Allen cranked it up into a 4-4 version, and there's an old version of him doing it as a bluegrass song. I started listening to Ray Price and got turned on to this different version. It's a song I was familiar with and I wanted to do more of the twin fiddle. That's a sound that just melts your heart."

"Whose Shoulder Will You Cry On?" by Kitty Wells - "I found this great old country tape, 'Country Time USA,' outtakes from radio shows for the troops. And they have country artists like Porter Wagner and Kitty Wells. This was live from a radio station, and she sounds so much more incredible than she already does. It's just so raw, and she's so right on. Her performance grabbed me so much that I had to learn the song."

"Rockin' Years," by Dolly Parton - "I was at this bar where they had karaoke, and I found Rockin' Years. The way she did it was a duet with Ricky Shelton. Girl sings and guy sings. It was the wrong key for me completely, and it was the most horrible experience in my life. I was stuck singing it low, and the DJ wouldn't stop it. The place was roaring with laughter."

"It's All Your Fault," by Wade Ray - "It's a song I learned at a fiddler's convention from this guitar player. I'd been asking if anyone knew that song, and no one could ever tell me. I'd never heard the original version, I just had my version of it in my head. The way I played it was more like Texas swing, Bob Wills."

• Korry Keeker can be reached at korry.keeker@juneauempire.com.