Deering and Down

Reverend Neil Straight down began his music profession in the past due ’60s, using blues story Albert Collins. More than another 30 years, he’d collaborate with music artists and producers such as for example Henry McCullough and Jerry Scheff. He ultimately released a solo recording, American Friend. Lahna Deering was raised in Slot Townsend, English Columbia. She started writing tunes and carrying out in her early teenagers. At age group 15, she migrated towards the small Alaskan city of Skagway. After operating like a maid and product sales clerk, she got employment inside a recreated platinum hurry camp for vacationers where, being a madam known as “Miss LaLa,” she interested guests with renditions of old-fashioned tracks. At for this period she fulfilled Reverend Down, whom she’d credit with changing her perceptions about music. Despite how old they are difference (Down likened them to Small Red Operating Hood as well as the Wolf), they discovered their musical sensibilities had been compatible. Down got a assortment of songs that he required a vocalist and Deering got materials of her very own. The resulting cooperation yielded an record, Coupe de Villa, documented in Alaska as well as the Yukon and released in past due 2001.