Don Cherel Presents His Debut Album
Handmade Content
The album’s 11 songs explore life’s everyday mysteries
With a compassionate blend of faith, insight and humor
Handmade Content
Was Produced by George Massenburg,
Who Has Worked With Everyone from Sinatra,
to The Dixie Chicks and Philip Glass
Guitarist Pat Bergeson, Known for His Work With Chet Atkins, Emmylou Harris and Suzy Bogguss,
Assembled a Small Band to Bring Cherel’s Music to Life
Don Cherel is a storyteller. As the head of DCP productions – one of the country’s most successful designers of television commercials - his words, music and images have been seen and heard by millions of Americans for more than a decade. He’s also an award winning commercial director, feature film cameraman, audio engineer, music producer and songwriter. For most of his career, he’s worked for other artists and major corporations, but in his spare time, he’s always written songs for himself.
“I never thought of recording my tunes,” Cherel says. “I keep them separate from the work I do for commercials. One day, my wife told me how much she liked singing them when she was working around the house. ‘I love your songs,’ she said. ‘You work in a recording studio. Why don’t you record some of them?’ I told her I couldn't record them, unless I knew I could do it right. ‘Well,’ she said, ‘I know – and you know - that you know how to do it right. So do it right!’”