Hip Hooray!
The Show is just beginning.
Look out on a sea of faces,
Each a little planet spinning…

That’s part of the lyric from a song called “I Am” that I co-wrote with Linda Marks and Lisa Aschmann.

Last year, I opened a great show at the beautifully restored Paramount Theater in Austin, MN with ‘I Am’ as part of the “Off 90″ Americana Music Series. The show was recorded for broadcast earlier this year on public television station KSMQ.

I am very pleased with result. I helps that the audio was mixed by my good friend Thomm Jutz, who produced “The Conjurer” with me in 2010.  So these recordings sound as good as they look.

There are a couple of tracks from the Paramount show on “Road Show,” and several more that are not on the new CD.  So I am going to release the video and  a download of some of those tracks in the weeks ahead as “updates” to this PledgeMusic campaign.

And the first offering is this video/MP3 download of “I Am.”

While I was at it, I included a download of the original studio recording of “I Am” from “Harry Truman Built A Road.”  That CD was released in 2002 but is now out of print, so some of you new fans who have never heard it might appreciate having this copy of the original track.

(Incidentally, one of the few remaining copies of “Harry Truman…” will be  included in the ‘Show Box Collection’ listed in the offers with this campaign.)

You can get all the goodies – the video and the downloads, just by following this link to my PledgeMusic campaign page.

There’s plenty more to come.  I am off today for a month-long tour of Ireland and Denmark and will be sending in plenty of updates from that ‘across the pond’ version of my continuing Road Show.

As always, I hope to see you somewhere down the road, and thanks ever so much for your support.

–Dana

Patronage is a concept as old as the arts themselves.

In the Renaissance, families of great means like the Medici’s became famous in part for their support of the great painters, sculptors, and musicians of the day.

In the digital era, when so much has been disrupted by the advance of new media and models, it seems the arts are returning to a tried and true means of support. And systems have been devised in the past few years that put the concept of “patronage” within easy reach of almost anybody with an Internet connection and a passion for the movies, books, and music that moves them.

So I am pleased to announce that today I’ve launched my own little ‘patronage’ program through PledgeMusic.com. Watch this little video to learn more about it:

My sincere thanks to my friends Montie and Jayna Powell for all the brilliant and hard work that they put into the video.

Now, to see what all we’ve cooked up in the way of special offers, please stop by our campaign page at Pledge Music.

The video of “Enough” is playing on CMT.com:

"Enough" on CMT.com

Click here to visit the CMT.com site.. if we can send them some traffic, maybe they’ll put the video on the TeeVee.

Jason Wheeler at WeAreAustin.com NAILS it:

Imagine doing something day in and day out for 40 years…and then changing your tune to do it different and better than ever before.  That's what the critics say Dana Cooper has done with his new CD The Conjurer. 

On the new compilation, Cooper says he aspired to a "rawer, more organic sound than on past recordings".  He's also done trying to fit into any neat descriptions, saying his new works draw on "folk, blues, rock, reggae, pop, and country".

That quick review accompanies the video of Dana's appearance yesterday on the "Austin Live" TV show, just prior to his CD release show at the Cactus Cafe.  Click the image above to see Dana's segment form Austin Live:

Days of shooting, weeks of editing, hours of uploading and it’s here at last: the first video of the first single from The Conjurer:

The player above is the YouTube “standard def” (SD) version… here’s a “High Definition” (HD) version too. Which ever version you’re viewing, try to get the sound into a decent set of speakers or headphones… it sounds great!

While we’re at it, we’ve also added “Enough” to the “free downloads” section of the website (caveat browsor: it’s a “Fan Exclusive,” you have to be on the e-mail list to  download the whole track – no such restrictions with the video).

Here’s a video of my performance of “Good Place to Begin” — one of the tracks on The Conjurer – recorded at the Roddy Tree Ranch in Kerrville, TX, back in January by Tony Galucci:

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