The eight-piece band Saborit hails from the eastern countryside of Cuba. That's sugar cane and tobacco country. And Saborit has a definite country sound to them.

Saborit band members played tunes like that in their hometown of Manzanillo for decades. But they had never recorded their music in a studio. They had never sold a CD.

So they drove to Havana on a tractor -- and camped outside a recording studio. They were there for three days before the studio's producer invited them in. The band's simple campesino music won the producer over. The result is the group's first CD.

It's called "Que Linda es mi Cuba" which roughly means "My Cuba Is So Beautiful."

The band is named after the late king of Cuban country music - Eduardo Saborit. And true to their campesino roots, band members stick to tradition. They play acoustic instruments -- just as they would back on the tobacco farm.

This is the music Saborit wanted people in Havana to hear. Country music that even city slickers could enjoy.
Now that music is being heard well beyond Havana.

Saborit's CD was just released in the United States last week.