"It was a monster task," says Keith E. Abel of Jewel Paula Records in Shreveport. "Trying to shepherd 33 manufacturing jobs, coordinating the studio, the printer, the CD replication center. If you've ever produced one CD, you know what I mean. But, when you multiply that by 33, you begin to deal with an exponential factor because all kinds of things start to crop up that you would have never thought about. It was just a monster task."

    The monster task to which Abel refers is the...