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Big Brother and the Holding Co. contacted me about a web site upgrade. Their previous site was set up very well but was lacking cosmetically.

So, I went to work and had an absolute blast. I had a lot of great photos from the early days when Janis Joplin was in the band and all types of vintage poster graphics to use from the old days. The band is still a very strong touring act and had a lot of brand new photos that I inserted too.

Overall the site has a very retro quality to it. That was done on purpose and I really feel like it matches the band's image perfectly.

Take a trip down memory lane and check out the Big Brother and the Holding Co. web site. There's a lot of great information on it for the classic rock fan that may be reading this.

Wanda Jackson is the Queen of Rockabilly Music and one of my favorite artists. Wanda made a huge comeback a few years ago with the release of "Heart Trouble". An album that included cool collaborations with such artists as Elvis Costello, Dave Alvin, & the Cramps.

With her career as hot as ever, Wanda wanted a cool new look for her web site and that's just what she got.

Flash animation was added, music, a message board for her fans, a chat room, an all new layout with new graphics, and much more.

Her hits have increased and so have her online sales. Check it out by clicking here

Jon Hensley & Wanda Jackson, August 2007 in Nashville

Recently my highest accomplishment was achieved as a web designer when I was hired to re-design Al Green's official web site. Al is a member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.. He's also a grammy award winner and one of the greatest singers of all time. I was just honored to take control of his online image.

I had interviewed Al on my syndicated radio show after the release of his "Everything's OK" cd on Blue Note.

His office wanted a new design to celebrate the release of the cd. I quickly created a web site to match the essence of the record. In May of 2008 Al released his most commercially successful album since the 1970's. "Lay it Down" debuted on the Billboard charts and on the day of the release I uploaded a new web site. There is some basic flash on the main site and a flash intro w/music at the entrance of the web site. Check it out here

Al Green & Jon Hensley, July 2007 in Memphis

The Sugar & Rox Clothing Company based in Los Angeles make some of the most trendy, rock n roll t-shirts for girls that you've ever seen. You may have seen the line at stores such as The Buckle, Pac Sun, and great boutiques all over the country. My sister's boutique carries the brand which is how I was introduced to Molly and her husband Diamond. They are partners in the Sugar & Rox Clothing Co. and besides being innovative entrepreneurs they are incredibly kind.

When I was asked to revamp their web site my answer was an automatic yes. There's a lot of flash animation involved with the upgrade as well as a few new graphics. The content from the other site was kept in place as well as the php design. Cosmetically I upgraded it so that it better matched the Sugar & Rox brand.

I'm happy with the turnout of this site and will be working with Molly & Diamond on yet another project in the near future.

This project was a lot of fun. Devine Soul Records contacted me with a vision of what they wanted their web site to look like. The overall concept of the web site is very sleek and simple yet modern all at the same time. Basically there isn't a lot of content but cosmetics was something that was very important to the label.

I completed this project for under $500 and finished it in a matter of days.

The entire front of the site is done in flash and the rest of the pages are mainly html pages with lots of sharp graphics and a hint of flash.

My first music oriented website was designing the website for "Goose on the Lake" which is a music festival put on each year by Lloyd Settle and his wife Donna. Lloyd was my teacher in high school and when I pitched the idea to him back then, he went for it. Through those shows each year I became friends with Charlie Gearheart of Goose Creek Symphony. In the summer of 2005 Charlie and I met about upgrading the Goose Creek official site.

He laid out some ideas and I gave him some prices. The new website went live in September of 2005 and we've continued to work together on various projects. Again, it's important for a web site to reflect the image and sound of the artist. This is another great example of capturing that with the look and feel of the site.

Click here to view it.

In April of 2005 I coordinated three concerts for three nights at the Cannery Ballroom in Nashville. The concerts were organized to raise money for St. Jude Children's Hospital which is a facility that deserves all the money it can get. They do amazing work at St. Jude and I wanted to help raise money, so I asked some of my favorite artists to take part in the concerts. Lee Roy Parnell, Cowboy Jack Clement, T. Graham Brown, and others took part. Gary Bennett was one of those artists that performed on the opening night. It was extra special for Gary to be there since it was his first real "live" performance since leaving Br5-49. He was the original co-frotnamn & lead singer of that successful country band.

Gary and I became friends through those shows and shortly after the shows ended, he asked me to manage him. He had already finsihed his record in Nashville and I was already a huge fan of it. I've now been managing him since then and his record was released to the public on February 21st 2006 courtesy of Landslide Records out of Atlanta.

For the release of the album I re-designed Gary's website and you can check it out by clicking the link here.

Lonesome Day Records is a fantastic small record label out of Eastern Kentucky that contacted me in late 2007 about designing some web sites. We struck a deal in early 2008 for web design, management, publicity/radio promotion for several of their artists. One thing I've always wanted to do is merge all of my interests into one company. It seems to be working out. I can now offer clients management, publicity services, radio promotion, and top of the line web design. Obviously not everybody needs all of those services, but when a client does it's nice to have it available to them.

Blue Moon Rising is a perfect example. I handled a national press campaign for their 2008 release on LDR. Before the album's release I re-designed their web site. Their original site was lacking cosmetically but had a lot of great content. So, I went in and created a brand new layout for the guys and the in the end they were happy. You can visit Blue Moon Rising online by clicking here.

As part of the same Lonesome Day Records package that I mentioned earlier, one artist that came with the deal was Larry Cordle. Larry is a legendary songwriter who resides outside of Nashville. His most popular credit is a co-write on the huge George Strait/Alan Jackson hit, "Murder on Music Row".

Larry's web site was designed very well. But, it seemed to be lacking something. A punch. Some excitement. I spent a lot of time listening to Larry's new album for Lonesome Day and looking at his previous web site. What I ended up designing for Larry was something very simple, yet flashy at the same time. Goto the web site and you'll see what I'm referring to. It is a lot more stylish than what he had before, yet still reflects Larry and his music.

Visit Larry's web site @ LarryCordle.com

The Lonesome Day Records web site was a quick project. The site had a huge amount of content in place when I took over as designer. Once again, the design was lacking on many levels. You have to be careful when designing for a business such as a record label. You don't want to scare users away with fancy graphic and a busy layout. You also want to make sure the web site loads up fast and doesn't have any type of splash page. With that in mind I moved forward with the design and quickly completed the project.

One feature that I added to their web site was the ability for customers to download their albums. You could buy the music on other web sites such as iTunes but there is more money to be made when customers buy directly from you.

click here for Lonesome Day Records

Dustin Barber is Al Green's guitar player for his recent concert tours. Dustin decided to go live with a web site but was using an online editor to build it. He wasn't too happy with the results and had heard good things about my work from Al's camp.

One day I received a phone call from Dustin who was really complimentary of the work I had done for Al and all of my clients.

Dustin was an absolute pleasure to work with on this project. He's a really nice guy and it's always great to run in to folks like him in the music business.

It was a lot of fun designing his web site. He allowed me to have as much creative input as I wanted into the project and that's always a blast. Be sure to drop him a line letting him know what you think of the web site by visiting DustinBarber.com

Steve Sparkman is a member of the Clinch Mountain Boys. He recently released an instructional DVD on how to capture that Ralph Stanley style of banjo playin.

His manager, Jason, contacted me after a referral from a previous client of mine. He had a few specific things that he wanted in place for the web site, the biggest being the ability to sell the dvd on the web site.

Design wise I utilized a lot of the great photos that Jason sent me for Steve's site. I built the web site around them and designed the entire site mainly in flash.

To view the web site, click here

Ashley Seiter is the son of Jimmi Seiter the great Road Manager for the Byrds & the Flying Burrito Brothers. Ashley started a t-shirt company using original graphics and artwork.. plus some rare photo's from his Dad's private collection.

He didn't have a web site when he contacted me. He paid a guy to build the web site.. the guy was lazy and the site was never built. I find that that happens often.

So, I took full advantage of the opportunity and told Ash what I could offer up. Ashley and I worked toward building a creative web site for his t-shirt company and the finished product includes a shopping cart with over 60 different products, a flash oriented juke box full of hip music, and much more.

Josh Halverson is a resident of Orange County, CA. He's a fantastic new singer/songwriter with an incredible batch of original songs.

Josh is a big Al Green fan and really liked the work that I did on Al's official web site. In early 2007 Josh contacted me about setting up a web site to promote him and his music. Unfortunately Josh had had a designer working on his web site but the designer never came up with anything.

So, we started from scratch and worked together to create a look to fit Josh's personality and style.

It was really interesting to work close on a design with the customer. Usually I'm told to come up with what I want and the customer rarely wants to give any opinions on the site. Josh wanted to be very involved with the design and that was rewarding. The finished product is a slick web site that will hopefully help build his career in the business.

Percy Sledge is one cool dude! C'mon.. everybody has a soft spot for "When a Man Loves a Woman".. it's one of the all time classic love songs.

I contacted Percy because I was a fan of his and knew that his web site had needed a facelift for years.

When it was announced that Percy was being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, AND he had a fantastic new record coming out.. I simply sent over a proposal to his manager Terry Shields to re-design the site.

They didn't purchase our most expensive web design package but they got a great web site. It's all about service. This is a perfect example of what you can get for a very, very low fee. Click Here

I'm obviously a huge music fan. Working in the music business as a manager and radio host allows me to get to know a lot of my favorite artists.

Dave Gleason's first record was sent in to my radio show and from then on I was hooked on the guy's music. Shortly after the second record was released I had Dave on the radio show for a chat. We've consistently stayed in touch and in 2007 I began consulting Dave on some career decisions in an effort to further his already established place in the industry.

Before the release of Dave's third album "Just Fall to Pieces", he asked me to re-design his web site.

I'm very proud of the final result and Dave was too. You can view the web site by clicking here. While you're there, read up on the California Country Rocker.

Kevin McKissick had heard about me working with Merle Haggard on a web site. He read about it in the newspaper and shortly afterwards contacted me about some design work.

Kevin called me up and told me about his Mortgage company located in Hopkinsville KY which is right down the road from me. We set up a meeting and I put up a web site for his company shortly after.

We've established a great relationship and friendship with Kevin and McKissick Mortgage Company. I'm proud of the web site. Click Here to view the site.

A few years ago I had the incredible opportunity to meet with Merle Haggard to talk about starting up a radio show and also designing a new web site for him. I've since had many interviews with Merle on my radio show, and the screen shot above is the web site that I designed for him. Yes, I was just a kid.

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