The Outlaw Trail
Paramount Theatre, February 20th,
Austin, TX. 2008
A Live Concert TV Special & Multi CD & DVD Infomercial Concept
The Outlaw Trail: The mysterious sanctuary of countless Outlaws - the Badlands of the West stretching from Canada through Montana, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and into New Mexico. The trail was used by Outlaws as they fled the law to certain escape in their hidden fortresses - hideouts like The Hole-in-the-Wall, Browns Park and Robbers Roost, leaving the lawmen far behind in a maze of canyons and dizzying mountain passes.
Despite the urban bulldozers that have destroyed much of the old “Frontier”, there are still vast areas of the Outlaw Trail that still exist and echo to the memory of Butch Cassidy; The Sundance Kid; Jesse James & The James Gang, Calamity Jane, Wyatt Earp, Kid Curry, Tom Horn, Wild Bill Hickok, Kit Carson, Isom Dart and Etta Place.
The Outlaw Trail has been immortalized in countless films and lamented in the music of legendary artists and our proposal will create a musical travelogue along the Outlaw Trail and the legendary music, musicians and performances of the 20th Century that it inspired.
Country & Western Music, as opposed to today’s Pop Country, is still the most cherished and popular source of “Outlaw Music” and has been augmented by a great number of Rock artists whose musical roots are firmly in Western Swing and Traditional Country Music. The recorded tracks and the live performances that become the musical focus of the project will be outstanding hit renditions by the artists detailed in the track lists and the Concert line up.
Please refer to the attached cleared label copy for the music CD box set content.
The Live Concert Presentation
- The proposed Live Concert will be shot at the Paramount Theatre in Austin, Texas, on the 20th February, 2008. Invitee artist list available by request to: John@charlieboymultimedia.com
- Presented by Ray Benson, the Concert will be narrated by Waddie Mitchell – The Cowboy Poet.
- This will be augmented by backdrop images and pictorial feature content, further edited in Post Production for the TV Special.
- The Live Show will run for 2 hours to produce a 1 hour, or 90 minute TV Special recording in Hi Definition, Surround Sound 5.1 Audio in co-production with HD Net TV and PBS / WLIW New York. The TV Special will feature a 12 camera HD shoot.
- The show will be shot in front of an audience up to 1200 people at the Paramount Theatre in Austin.
The Multi CD Box Infomercial Production
The Infomercial will be produced to provide for up to 30 minutes of edited footage and will also be further edited to 15 minutes, (as requested by our International marketing partners). Subsequently, we will also edit 5, 4, 2 and 1 minute ‘short-form’ commercial versions, also. The pre-production has been taking place this past 6 months with the full and completed licensing of the recorded music tracks, the mechanical license agreements with the separate music publishers, the collation of clips from artist performance sources, and multiple archives.
We now have outstanding music and footage access from these sources and an agreement with a legendary presenter and performing artist - Ray Benson, the instantly recognizable leader of Texas Swing legends – Asleep At the Wheel.
The Infomercial is being built around a depiction of life in the 1880’s West and the characters who built the enduring and compelling legend of the Outlaw Trail. We will incorporate the stills from the top archival library sources including actual footage of the original outlaws and their environment; some of these stills are included in the extract of Robert Redford’s Book, The Outlaw Trail. We will also be utilizing performance footage from the major featured artists.
The music content will slip seamlessly into the script and will be augmented by artist performance clips. The Infomercial will feature film clips, the artist performance clips and the sound bed - it will be a memorable and unique presentation with outstanding music. Waddie Mitchell, Cowboy Poet and Storyteller, and working Cowboy for 25 years, will provide compelling authenticity to the Infomercial for the audience.
The cover artwork features an Outlaw standing in a desert roadway setting in full color. The box set will contain 6-10 CD’s and 1 DVD, as preferred by the various International marketing clients. Complete samples of the 10 CD box set now available. www.outlawtrailmusic.com
