Milo Deering (USA)
Milo Deering is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and producer from North Texas who works as a session musician and sideman on guitar, steel guitar, fiddle, mandolin, Dobro, and banjo. He has toured as a member of Don Henley’s band and with the Eagles, and he produces and plays on recordings for many singer-songwriters. As a solo artist he has released several albums, including Swing That Music and three volumes of cross-genre holiday music titled Milo Deering’s All Acoustic Christmas Jam. He also wrote the score for the National Geographic special The Snow Monkeys of Texas.
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“Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” was written by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane for the film Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), in which Judy Garland sings it to her tearful younger sister on the eve of the family’s move away from home. Martin’s first draft was so melancholy that Garland refused to sing it, and here worked the lyrics into something gentler. Arriving during World War II, its bittersweet wish for better days struck a chord with families separated by the war. In 1957 Frank Sinatra asked for one more revision, giving the song the brighter lines most people sing today. Deering’s soft instrumental version on guitar lets that wistful melody speak for itself.
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