Krista Herring's debut album was released August of 2009. “Lay It Down” is an album created against the odds. Despite severe injury to one of her fingers on her guitar chord hand in the middle of album production, Krista managed to retrain herself to play without the finger in order to finish the album. This album was started at Ripcord Studio in Vancouver, Washington with Patrick Tetreault, and finished at Hawthorne Bridge Recording Company in Portland, Oregon with producer M. Keefe Rayfield. It was mixed by Justin Phelps and mastered at RFI in Seattle Washington. The first song on the album, "Free," won the 2009 Effigy Award for Best Folk Song on Fame Games. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.