Hello, My name is Danny Davenport and I'm the owner of FIRSTAKE Enterprises. I'd like to take just a moment to introduce you to who we are and what we're up to. But ... before you go any further, please check out this link , you'll enjoy
it and understand who I am a little better. Just
trust me on this one .... then come back here.
I've been in the music industry now for over 31 years. I started in 1968 at Liberty / United Artists ( UDC Distributers ) here in Atlanta and in January, 1972, I started to work for Warner Bros. Records where I stayed until I took early
retirement in September of 1999.
During the course of the past 3 decades, I've worked in just about every aspect of the business from Promotion and Marketing to A&R and Artist Development . In this web site you can read and see the capsulized story of how we developed an artist from no where to multi-platinum status which involved putting together a career from the ground up, in virtually every aspect of the final package.
That artist was Travis Tritt, and I believe you may be already familiar with his career. With the help of Russ Thyret from Warner Brothers, I put his career together from nothing. Including his band "Country Club", his Recording contract at Warner Bros., his manager Ken Kragen and his booking agent William Morris. I produced and recorded his first album in my home studio on Bentwood Drive here in Marietta, Georgia, and some ( almost ) 20 years later, a copy of " Proud of the Country " sold on Ebay for over $600.00 .
I have decided to move away from the daily activity of recording the public and I'm going to activate my Original Record Label " CopperHill Records " as well as a new Gospel label - " Cross-Ties Records ". Both will no doubt take up most of my time and I will have to devote the studio to those artists we sign. We are talking to some really great prospects already and our first project is Calvin Newton ( from the Gospel Music Hall Of Fame, and former member of the Oak Ridge Boys, The Blackwood Brothers and The Sons Of Song ) . His book written by Russ Cheatham " Bad Boy Of Gospel Music " - ( ______ ) has been released this past August, and hopefully, our album by the same name will be soon as well. Watch for more news as it becomes available.
Thank you for your visit, and I hope you'll spend some time with the other areas of our web site and have some fun in the process. We welcome your comments so please get in touch with us, we'd love to hear from you.
Sincerely,
Danny Davenport
Firstake Enterprises
Warner Bros Publicity
photo from 1976
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