Now she don’t mind the Western way/ Long as she gets to swing both night and day.”

With this opening line to his latest album, “The Mashed Potato Swing,” people may think Don Campbell is a Down East native singing about the local Western Way, which is the name for the strait that separates Great Cranberry Island from Mount Desert Island.

He’s not. But, like many country musicians, Campbell sings about tried-and-true themes that both locals and people from away should be able to relate to.

Down East country music fans will have the chance to hear Campbell for themselves Friday when The Don Campbell Band performs in Ellsworth. The five-piece band, which has played at The Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tenn., will play at The Grand.

Campbell is a Scarborough native and lives in Portland, but the music he and his band play is from somewhere farther south and west. In fact, Campbell owns a home in Nashville, which he calls “ground zero” in the country music world. But Campbell is no stranger to Hancock County. As a solo musician, he played at the now-defunct Left Bank in Blue Hill, while his band has played at The Grand twice before.

Campbell’s band has won competitions in Nashville and shared stages with more famous country musicians such as Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Ricky Skaggs and Randy Travis. But Campbell said the band has been well received all over the country.

“It doesn’t really matter where they’re from,” Campbell said of his fans. “The people in Maine have been great.”

As “The Mashed Potato Swing” demonstrates, Campbell sings about topics commonly found in country songs: freedom, independence, patriotism, love lost and love found – but not necessarily in that order. Love especially gets heavy play on “The Mashed Potato Swing,” both with hope for the future and with regret for the past.

The latest compact disc from the five-piece band offers listeners some fast-paced toe-tappers and some mellower, more sentimental songs. Vocal harmonies, fiddle and dobro steel guitar complement the standard lineup of drums, bass, acoustic and electric guitars on the 13-song album.

Campbell said he and his band have enjoyed playing The Grand in the past and look forward to Friday’s visit.

“It’s like performing in a living room,” he said. “The acoustics are great.”

Turkey Hollow, a country and folk trio, also from Portland, will be the opening act. Tickets for the double bill, which starts at 8 p.m., are $16. For tickets or information, call The Grand at 667-9500.