Stephen Foster Tribute CD Wins Grammy

Beautiful Dreamer, a tribute to the songwriting of Stephen Foster, recently took home the Grammy for Best Traditional Folk Album. A collection of Foster's most beloved compositions sung by some of today's most respected musical artists, the CD has received rave reivews from fans and crictics alike since its release. DVM created the packaging, which includes a 24 page booklet, with images and original sheet music from the Stephen Foster library. The album includes songs by: Raul Malo, Alison Krauss with Yo Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer and Mark O'Connor, BR549, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Judith Edelman, The Duhks, John Prine, Henry Kaiser, Beth Nielsen Chapman, David Ball, Michelle Shocked & Pete Anderson, Grey De Lisle, Mavis Staples, Ollabelle, Roger McGuinn, Suzy Bogguss, Will Barrow and Ron Sexsmith. All of the proceeds from the CD will benefit American Roots Publishing, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving American regional culture through literature and art. View the full artwork.

Sugar Hill Releases Debut Album From The Duhks

Sugar Hill Records has recently released the debut album from new contemporary acoustic sensation The Duhks. This youthful band includes a bluesy lead singer, a Cuban percussionist, a Celtic-style guitar player, a clawhammer banjoist and a fiery, genre-morphing fiddler. They effortlessly fuse Folk, Old-time, Bluegrass, Celtic, French-Canandian, and polyrhythmic percussion (among many other influences) into a worldly concoction of wildly accessible folk, nee, rock music! DVM was tapped to design an indepth CD Enhancement which contains an 8 1/2 minute video (which we also edited), a photo gallery, member bios and much more. Additionally, we put created an eCard for the band with lots of content and features.

Reckless Kelly Back With Wicked Twisted Road

DVM authored an eCard for Sugar Hill Records to use promoting the newest release from Austin, TX favorites Reckless Kelly. Their new album, Wicked Twisted Road, is already generating fantastic press, radio airplay and sales. The eCard includes a video, song samples, bio, downloadable goodies, photos and more. If you've never heard these guys, be sure to check them out. You won't be disappointed.

New Web Site Launched For Melonie Cannon

When Melonie Cannon was ready to release her debut album on the Skaggs Family Records label she wanted to make sure her presence on the internet was every bit as exciting and engaging as the music on her CD. She also wanted her web site to reflect the look and feel of her CD packaging. DVM built upon graphical elements in the CD package to provide Melonie with a web site that displays the same professionalism and artistic integrity as her music. Coordinating the look between CD packages and web sites is an excellent way for artists to "brand" themselves with their audience and to provide continuity and familiarity between different aspects of their work. Melonie's site is an excellent example of how this can work so effectively.

New eCard For Robert Earl Keen

Robert Earl Keen is one of the most popular and respected singer-songwriters in Texas today. His newest album, Farm Fresh Onions, was released on the Nashville independent country label Audium Records on October 7th. To promote the release of the album, Digital Vision Media was hired to design and develop an eCard which would not only inform fans about the release, but also give them a chance to listen to three songs from the album.

New Digital Portfolio And Website
For Renowned Graphic Artist Gina R. Binkley

Gina R. Binkley is one of the most renowned graphic artists in Nashville. Her impressive list of clients (Nike, Coca Cola, Zima, NFL, CMT, Capitol Records, Warner Brothers, Dreamworks, RCA/BMG, Fortune Magazine, to name just a few) displays a diverse and far reaching portfolio. Binkley was looking for an economical, practical and effective way to introduce prospective clients to her work and a Digital Portfolio was the perfect solution. DVM designed an interactive, multimedia CD-ROM for Binkley that allows prospective clients to view examples of her work at their computer, easily and quickly. Binkley was able to distribute thousands of these at a fraction of the cost it would take to send printed materials. Additionally, her Digital Portfolio contains many more examples than it would be practical to display via print. DVM also built a new web site for Binkley in conjunction with the Digital Portfolio.

Package Design For New Johnny Cash
And June Carter Cash Reissues

Digital Vision Media was recently chosen to design the packaging for a brand new series of historical resissues, Live Recordings From The Louisiana Hayride. In 1960 the Louisiana Hayride was the second most famous country music radio show in the country (surpassed only by The Grand Ole Opry). The bigest stars of the time performed regularly on the Hayride, including Elvis Presley, Jim Reeves, George Jones, Johnny Horton, Faron Young, Don Gibson and many more. Scena Records is releasing multiple and single artist compilations from the Hayride archives. Initial releases by Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash are in stores now.