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2012 AIGA Texas Show Kicks Off In Austin This Week

Friday, April 6th, 2012

Attention fellow Texans! The Good Luck & True Love record packaging design has been selected for The 2012 AIGA Texas Show’s Traveling Exhibit, which opens this weekend, here in Austin, at the Gallery Black Lagoon! This too-cool-for-school show will be trucking across the great Lone Star State this summer, making stops in San Antonio, Houston and DFW, before making the long trek to The Big Apple. Yes…THE Big Apple.

If you get the opportunity, between now and August, please plan a visit to one of these fabulous venues to check out the exhibit.

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“Good Luck & True Love” Takes Home LSM Award for Best Album Artwork – Thank You for Voting!!

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012

The Annual Lone Star Music Awards were held this past Sunday at the Texas Music Theater in San Marcus, and Reckless Kelly took home four of the coveted Armadillos: Song of The Year ( for “Good Luck & True Love”), Best Americana/Roots Rock Album, Best Album Art, and Cody nabbed Best Musician. Congratulations, guys. You deserve all of it, and then some. We’re just thrilled that you’ve allowed us to tag along for a while! (more…)

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Grammy Nomination…..Oh My!

Thursday, December 1st, 2011

Oh Happy Day!!!! There are no words that can properly express how thrilled we are to have found ourselves as Grammy Nominees for the 2011 Best Recording Package late last night for the 54th Annual Grammy Awards! The amount of ‘happy’ that is floating around this studio is immeasurable. Though, I think that if Sarah keeps on screaming, we’re sure to also be finding ourselves with a noise complaint! ha.

A big (huge) THANK YOU to Reckless Kelly for choosing to collaborate on another album with us and for allowing us to go a little crazy on it….and for being crazy right along with us. It was such a great project to have been a part of – any time we get to work with these guys is an honor, in and of itself! If any of you haven’t gotten your copy of the CD yet – get after it! The packaging is only the wrapping paper for a fabulous album.

And, not to get all super sappy, but a big ol’ thank you to our doting parents, Chuck and Donna Dodds for supplying us with that bucket-o-crayons and an endless supply of artsy-fartsy craft gear … and for instilling in us the belief that we can do anything we set our minds to …We love you!!

We’re up against some pretty heavy hitters in our category – all of whom are more than worthy of the honor. We’re both humbled and thrilled to be counted among them. Check out the full list of nominees at by clicking here.

I suppose this is a good kick in the butt to get us started on completing this website, or at least get a good start on it! We’ll be back with more displays of the packaging design, and updates on the other goings-on for Backstage Design Studio!

In the meantime, hop over to RecklessKelly.com, and get your copy….NOW!!!!

Cheers! Shauna & Sarah

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Guy Clark Tribute | A Glowing Review From The Telegraph, UK

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

This One’s For Him: A Tribute To Guy Clark, CD review

Guy Clark is honoured in a marvellous tribute album featuring Willie Nelson, Lyle Lovett, John Prine, Steve Earle and Emmylou Harris

Guy Clark, who celebrated his 70th birthday yesterday, on 6th November 2011, is one of the great storytellers of modern music.

You can tell merely from the queue of country giants who have lined up to record his songs on This One’s For Him: A Tribute To Guy Clark the esteem in which he is held. There are 30 brilliant tracks from, among others, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Rosanne Cash, Patty Griffin, Steve Earle, Lyle Lovett, John Prine, Emmylou Harris, Joe Ely, Rodney Crowell and Robert Earl Keen. It’s like a who’s who of country music.

And what quality songs they have to work with. Clark is a musical poet. His craggy, sparse songs – less is always more with Clark – are deceptively simple but deeply moving.

Clark, whose early songs such as Desperadoes Waiting For A Trainwere set in Monahans, Texas, where he grew up, has described the feeling of “exhilaration” when you know you have written a great song. “It’s like being like on Cloud Nine,” he said once. Desperadoes is a tour-de-force and it’s no surprise that it fell to Willie Nelson to record that song. If anyone can summon up the right voice for an epic old desperado, it is Nelson.

Click here to read the full review

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This One’s For Him: A Tribute to Guy Clark

Monday, October 10th, 2011

It isn’t often that you have the opportunity to work on a project for such an amazing artist as Guy Clark, let alone the who’s who list of our heroes involved on this amazing project. Sarah and I have been humbled by the incredible talent behind “This One’s For Him: A Tribute To Guy Clark” and immeasurably proud to have been asked to create the record packaging design for it.

Due to be released later this year, the 2-CD compilation album features more icons than you can shake a stick at: Willie Nelson, Rodney Crowell, Lyle Lovett, Shawn Colvin, Shawn Camp, Ron Sexsmith, Rosanne Cash, Rosie Flores, Kevin Welch, Suzy Bogguss, Ray Wylie Hubbard, John Townes Van Zandt II, Ramblin Jack Elliott, James McMurtry, Hayes Carll, Joe Ely, Emmylou Harris, John Prine, Steve Earle, Veron Thompson, Terri Hendrix, Radney Foster, Patty Griffin, Kris Kristofferson, Gary Nicholson, Darrell Scott, Tim O’Brien, Jack Ingram, Vince Gill, Robert Earle Keen, Terry Allen, The Trishas, Jerry Jeff Walker

Really…..Somebody pinch me!