PIONEER TROUBADOUR PRODUCTION TEAM AND ADVISERS
Benford
Standley has been in the business of entertainment for 40 plus years, working with the
likes of Clint
Eastwood, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Emmylou Harris, Hoyt
Axton, Waylon
Jennings, Taylor Swift, Miranda Lambert, Kacey Musgraves, Aaron Neville, Les Paul and many others. He has
produced Wild West Shows,
Rodeos, Symposiums, the World Chile Cook-off, several 3 day music festivals, a
arts and craft festival
on the strip in Vegas with a concert in a Vegas casino, and hundreds of concerts
and bar gigs in five
states and three foreign countries. He produced a very important symposium
on runaway kids, a subject
he has written two books on, and presently doing a shocking ebook about. In 1995, he produced one
of the very first live video/audio Internet cybercast. The webcast
was from the cybercast
of Willie Nelson, produced in concert with Sony/Columbia Online and he produced the
show on
a Bob Dylan website. The
show was a Yahoo "Pick of the Week," and a pick by CitySearch.com,
and
was so successful that the
Sony server system crashed in San Francisco.
In 1998, he returned to
famous Troubadour in Hollywood. In 1997,
while living back in Austin, Tx, he produced a live Internet
LA to launch his new project the StudioClub.com. A Virtual Entertainment InterNetwork, then every
Tuesday night for one year he webcast the Ronnie Mack Barn Dance from a honky tonk at the corner
of Hollywood and Vine. In 1999 and 2000, he teamed up with Yahoo.com as a broadcast partner and
streamed the First American In the Arts Awards.
Pete Kennedy
Partner and Exec. Producer
Pete Kennedy is Executive Producer/Swag Master and has worked with the likes of the Grateful Dead,
The Band, Ziggie Marley, Jimmy Cliff, George Clinton and many others. He coordinated the arts and
crafts for Woodstock 25th and 30 year anniversary. He has toured in 25 countries including South
America, Japan, and all of the United States. He is a master chef and can feed a tour on the bus, or
at a roadside park, and as a tour manager can keep the bus and tour moving along on schedule.
Pete is working with a number of investors on several projects, and has run a number of business
himself over his many years in the music business.
Christopher Felver is a photographer, author, and filmmaker. His work has been exhibited inter-
nationally, and his works are collected by numerous libraries and museums, including Stanford Univ.
Special Collections. He participated in the 53rd Venice International Film Festival, and screened
films in festivals and museums around the globe, including presentations at the Library of Congress,
he received the Best Art Documentary Awards at the Cinema Arts Centre Independent Film Festival,
and he was a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome. He has worked with some of the
greats in the biz and has teamed up with Bruce Ricker, partner and associate of Clint Eastwood's
on several of his film projects. Chris is presently co producing a documentary on Jimmie Rodgers
with Benford Standley.
Dan Jones here with Troubadour Ramblin' Jack Eliott, was recently Chairman of the Ponca Nation,
Oklahoma. He was a Field Producer on the Emmy nominated documentary 500 Nations, working with
Kevin Costner. He worked for Disney Imagineering on the Disney America Project, and performed with
Sammy Davis Jr. and Wayne Newton at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Jones'
television productions include producing The World of American Indian Dance, which premiered on
NBC in 2003. In 2001 Jones was the co-host and co-producer of the First Americans in the Arts awards
ceremony webcast, with broadcast partner Yahoo.com. In 1993 he received the Muse Award from the
Association of American Museums for a work produced by the new Smithsonian National Museum
of the American Indian. Jones is a traditional straight dancer.
Len Dell'Amico Advisor to the Producer. Len directed and/or produced many concert films and
music videos with such artists as Sarah Vaughan, Herbie Hancock, the Allman Brothers Band, Linda
Ronstadt, Blues Traveler, Carlos Santana, Ray Charles, Reuben Blades, Bonnie Raitt, and of course,
Grateful Dead. Len first worked with Grateful Dead in 1980 on "Dead Ahead," the band's live TV
broadcast and platinum home video. He was the band's "film and video guy" for the next 11 years.
Dell'Amico and Jerry Garcia co-directed "So Far," the top-selling music video of 1988, which won
the American Film Institute's award for best long-form music program. Len has just recently
released his first feature movie "Everything Must Go."
Frank Mull has
been in the "biz" for four plus decades. From Radio, which he began
in 1960 at
WFLO in Farmville, VA, he
went into the record industry in 1968. Three years at Capitol was
a
beginning of over twenty years as a executive in that field, including national promotions with
Mercury and Avco Records. Mull has been as Exec. Director of Country Radio Broadcasters, Inc.
working with state and national government officials, including mayors, governors and U.S.
Senators, and have him dealing with such legendary entertainment names Red Barber, Dick
Clark, Arthur Godfrey and Paul Harvey, among others. He has been director of operations of the
700-member Reunion of Professional Entertainers (ROPE). Frank Mull has worked with Merle
Haggard for 30+ years as tour manager, merchandise manager and many other hats for Hag.
Post Production Supervisor and Finishing Company
Joel Cox - is Academy Award winning editor, and started at Warner Brothers as mail-room boy
where in 1969 he was moved into the cutting room, as an unaccredited assistant on "Woodstock" and
the "Wild Bunch," he was credited assistant on "The Outlaw Josey Wales" working for the first time
with Clint Eastwood. Durable collaboration followed with cox cutting all films made by Eastwood for
40+ years. IMDB Mini Biography. Cox has been quoted as saying that over their years of partnership
Eastwood has re-cut only a single scene that Cox put together.
HMPE Studios HMPE.COM
Is headed up by Todd Fisher, the son of Debbie Reynolds and brother of Carrie Fisher (from Star
Wars). They have state of the Hollywood Studio with state of the art post production facilities and have
issued a letter to us stating:
"Must say we enjoyed working with you on the transferring work we did on all your video footage
from you years of shooting the Jimmie Rodgers documentary. We really look forward to working
with you on the finishing of the project. As discussed, we can assist you with Editorial, Titles and
Graphics, Sound Mix, Finishing, Voice Over, Colorization and Storage. The help you format for
reproduction and distribution."