NEWS - EVENTS - NEW RELEASES - IN MEMORY - CYBER NOTES
Ricky Skaggs continues his bluegrass rebirth by starting another new record label, Ceili Music. Initial releases will appear in early 1999 and will include albums by Del McCoury, Blue Highway, the Gibson Brothers, the Whites, the Sullivans, and the U.S. release of The Transatlantic Sessions, with Jerry Douglas, Nanci Griffith, and a host of others.
This winter, National slideman Chris Whitley will be working on his next album with producer Daniel Lanois.
Willie Nelson will join Bill Cosby, Shirley Temple Black, AndrŽ Previn, and Broadway songwriters John Kander and Fred Ebb as honorees at the 16th annual Kennedy Center Honors celebration on December 6. The show will be broadcast on CBS.
Composer, guitarist, and A.G. contributor Stephen Dick was awarded second prize in the 1998 Paolo Barsacchi Guitar Composition Competition by the Centro Chitarristico Toscano for his three-movement work Sonatina for Solo Guitar.
Songwriter Terry Allen contributed the sound track to The Baby Dance, a Showtime original movie starring Laura Dern and Stockard Channing.
"The Best of Chet Atkins from Austin City Limits," a one-hour special hosted by Garrison Keillor, premieres December 2 on PBS. It will include clips from Atkins' five performances on the series and feature guest appearances by Jethro Burns and Thom Bresh.
The Bill Keith Bluegrass Festival band contest will be held on January 14, 1999, at River Ranch, Florida. For information, call (941) 419-0202.
Wintergrass '99 takes place February 25-28, 1999, at the Sheraton Inn in Tacoma, Washington. Performers include Tony Rice, Peter Rowan, Bill Frisell, and Laurie Lewis. For information, call (253) 926-4164 or email patriceo@nwlink.com.
Bruce Springsteen: Songs, a collection of Springsteen's complete recorded album lyrics, will be released by Avon Books in December. The deluxe package also features 200 photographs and Springsteen's personal reflections on his songs.
Do you have a copy of the Beatles' Yesterday and Today with the "butcher cover" or the red vinyl version of Elvis' Christmas Album? The Official Guide to the Money Records, by Jerry Osborne (Ballantine Books), will tell you how much they and 998 other valuable records are worth.
The eight-volume, 8,000-page Encyclopedia of Popular Music, Third Edition, which contains 18,500 entries and a song index of 50,000 titles, has been published by Grove's Dictionaries, (800) 221-2123, www.grove reference.com.
Andrew York's new book, Jazz for Classical Cats, will be released in January by Alfred Publishing, (800) 292-6122, www.alfredpub.com. The book will help classical guitarists broaden their horizons by providing an easy-to-follow guide to jazz.
The book that guitarists with low self-esteem have been waiting for is here. IDG Books has published Guitar for Dummies by Mark Phillips. For information, call (650) 655-3000 or visit www.dummies.com.
Eldon Shamblin, guitarist and arranger with Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, died August 5, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, at the age of 82. Shamblin's sophisticated rhythm guitar playing and arranging brought a jazz perspective to Wills' band and influenced generations of western swing guitarists.
"Words on Music" is a weekly Internet interview and performance program presented by Songwriter's Monthly and broadcast live at www.mediabureau. com every Wednesday at 10 p.m. EST.
Guitar Notes (www.guitarnotes. com) now has an updated guitar tablature search engine that indexes guitar music from all over the Internet.
A database of stolen instruments, designed to help music shop owners determine whether a used instrument is stolen, is located at www.empire.net/ ~wozmak/thelist.html.
Nut Chords is a freeware chord finder for Windows 95 and 98 that can be found at www. angelfire.com/nc/nutchords.
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