Carlene Crom is back at Tesco Productions to resume her CD recording. It’s been a few years since she was here, and she made a name change in the meantime which has kept her occupied with other focuses. The current CD will be a compilation of the prior recordings and new material. Some special additions are being made to the music as well, and one of those is the cello artistry of Alexa. Carlene asked Alexa to listen to a couple of her songs, write a cello part for them and then record the pieces as well. She did a nice job and we mixed those songs yesterday.
This CD has a special place in Carlene’s heart, as she’s devoting a portion of the proceeds to support a veterans memorial in her local Iowa town. The songs will be a mix of patriotic and gospel tunes. She’s planning a September release date.

This past month I was contacted concerning the possible audio recording of a new book release. The person calling, Eunice Arant and I have known each other a good number of years – from my days at KGBI-FM here in Omaha. Eunice produced a women’s radio program and I was one of the station engineers who did the recording. Over the years I’ve called on Eunice to be in various radio spots and other studio voice work. Eunice is a good friend of the author, Dee Brestin, a Christian Women’s speaker who formerly lived in Nebraska with her family. The author had requested Eunice to read her latest book Idol Lies, and so we submitted some samples to the production company and were given the green light. The book is slated for a September release.