Raised in Chicago, learning from folk, classical and jazz guitarists, and being spoiled by the great Chicago performers of the time, Loner Douglas left on a trip to Alaska and stayed 30 years. During that time, he has worked in seafood canneries, as a commercial set net fisherman, an emergency medical technician, and as an industrial technician /electrical inspector. Living in remote areas from one end of Alaska to the other, he has witnessed seal parties, whale butchering, and a view of the world from the bottom of a nuclear missile silo. He has often chosen the lone path of “the road less traveled”.