SWEET LAREDO
Sweet Laredo are: Sarah J. Scott and Dan W. Coggins.
They met in London where Bristolian Sarah had gone to learn things and multi-instrumentalist Dan was on a foray down from the Durham hills. Finding a shared love of soul, jazz,blues and hip-hop they began to collaborate on smoked-out, beats-driven tunes. These were then stripped back to be played only on a battered old spanish guitar giving full reign to Sarah's incredible voice which veers wildly between the gutsy blues moan of Etta James and the smoked-out rasps of Eryka Badu.
After playing their first gig at London's Jazz Cafe they developed their tunes with gigs as a duo around Britain and Europe. And so began experimental recording sessions in Dan's bedroom and down-time at legendary North London studio Sweet Georgia Brown's. Grabbing top players from varying musical backgrounds to add extra seasoning,a lo-fi country-soul record was conceived.
After further drum sessions at The Sunderland Bunker in North-East England, it was decided to infuse the stew with the many flavours of this green and pleasant land. Thus,the double-bass and 30gb hard-disk were strapped to an old VW and slowly dragged to a large vicarage in a small Cornish fishing village where the sunny winter beaches were to add the final uplifting ingredient to Views From The Manse. At gigs you may see them free-styling with double bass, piano, flutes, sax, a full band or just a guitar and a voice.
