"Dreamsville" Covers Steve Khan

    Another great gift in 2005 was that my search for a graphic designer for CD cover artwork, by some miracle, I was able to reconnect with the superlative Janet Perr. Not only did we work together during my years at Columbia Records, when Janet was just a youngster, but we spent a number years living in the same building in the Chelsea area of Manhattan. I was so happy that we would be working together again and our collaboration on "THE GREEN FIELD" led to working together on, in total, 11 CD projects. Some of them involved different covers for different territories. That was probably more fun for me than it was for Janet but the end results were beautiful to look at.
    It becomes a rare opportunity for music fans to actually get to see all of the various designs that Janet submitted to me for "THE GREEN FIELD" album. In truth, I love them all and it was almost impossible to choose just ONE of them for the cover. In the end, Janet and I both loved, what we came to refer to as, the "lavender" cover. It is this cover that I chose to represent "Dreamsville" in the video presentation. The only cover not presented is the "chocolate" version which became the cover for the Tone Center Records release in the USA. President Mike Varney, who has become a close friend, felt that "lavender" was not rough & tough enough for the persona of his label - mainly known for furious shredders of the highest technical abilities. This becomes an amusing side note at best. Just enjoy seeing them all and I hope that you will come to have your own favorite - the one, the color, that you would have chosen.

    In this case, thanks to Joseph Patrick Moore and his Blue Canoe Records, "Dreamsville" now has its moment as a one song project for a track/a performance which had been previously unreleased, because time-wise there had been no room for it on both "THE GREEN FIELD"(2005) and "BORROWED TIME"(2007). So this beautiful ballad, which features: John Patitucci (Ac. Bass); Jack DeJohnette (Drums) and Manolo Badrena (Perc.), was never heard for 20 years just sitting in my archives, until now.
    In my preparations for the Blue Canoe release, I needed to create a cover just for "Dreamsville" as a single. As I enjoy working with Photoshop so much, mostly for this website, I simply took Janet Perr's "GREEN FIELD" designs, for which she gave me designs in 6 different colors, and copied the basics of her design layout with Doug West's painting "Summer Resonance" in the middle and sandwiched between colors and graphics. In this case, with all of the space, I could have the names of Patitucci, DeJohnette and Badrena appearing on the cover too. So this page becomes an opportunity for those interested to see what goes into choosing a single image to represent the whole. Normally, no one would ever see the covers that were not chosen. In this case, any of these covers would have been a great choice.

    Finally, at the bottom, just for some HOLIDAY fun, I created a special X-MAS animated gif cover which includes a groovy Santa making a cameo appearance. All in good fun. This cover was only intended to be used/seen for about 24 hrs. from about 5 P.M. on Christmas Eve to about the same time on Christmas Day. And there you have it!