NEWS - NEW RELEASES - IN MEMORY - CYBER NOTES
Rounder Records, a stalwart of the independent label community since 1970, has signed a production and distribution deal with Mercury Records, which will mean major distribution for a portion of Rounder's catalogue.
Joni Mitchell headlined the Old Town School of Folk Music's grand opening benefit concert, September 18, at the school's new home, the Chicago Folk Center, a 43,000-square-foot former library that includes a new, state-of-the-art, 425-seat concert hall. For more information, call (773) 525-7793.
Bob Dylan's "To Make You Feel My Love," as recorded by Garth Brooks for the Hope Floats soundtrack, reached the top of Billboard's Country Singles chart.
The U.S. Postal Service has issued stamps featuring four legendary folk musicians: Woody Guthrie, Sonny Terry, Leadbelly, and Josh White.
The new revised fourth edition of The Jazz Guitar, by Maurice J. Summerfield, contains more than 90 new biographical entries as well as over 200 new photographs and illustrations. The book is published by the Ashley Mark Publishing Co. (fax [44] 191-414-9001; www.ashleymark.co.uk) and distributed in the U.S. and Canada by Hal Leonard.
Three Rivers Press (www.randomhouse.com) has released Nanci Griffith's first book, Nanci Griffith's Other Voices, a companion to her recently released CD Other Voices, Too: A Trip Back to Bountiful and the Grammy-winning Other Voices, Other Rooms.
Windham Hill Essentials has reissued a number of classic Windham Hill titles in a new mid-priced CD series. Included are the Best of Michael Hedges and titles by Will Ackerman, Alex de Grassi, Mike Marshall and Darol Anger, and Nightnoise.
Teaching the Folk Guitar, by Phil Johnson, is a new teacher's manual for teaching basic folk guitar to groups. For information, call (828) 863-4692 or visit www.radioyur.com/yufpub.html.
Legacy has released In Progress and in Motion (1966-1998), a retrospective of Taj Mahal's Columbia recordings that features 54 classic, rare, and unreleased songs.
Little Brown has published This Land Is Your Land, an illustrated book that introduces children to Woody Guthrie and the redwood forests and Gulf Stream waters celebrated in Guthrie's popular song.
Jimmy Driftwood, master of traditional folk and country music, died July 12 at the age of 91 in Fayetteville, Arkansas. In addition to being a folklorist and performer of traditional music, Driftwood wrote hit songs for Johnny Horton ("Johnny Reb" and "Battle of New Orleans") and Eddy Arnold ("Tennessee Stud").
The jazz guitar world lost one of its most gifted players with the passing of Tal Farlow, who died of cancer at age 77 on Saturday, July 25. Though he had no formal musical training, Farlow's large, spidery hands and unsurpassed dexterity with the Red Norvo Trio and other ensembles were legendary. Gibson recently resumed production of the distinctive Tal Farlow model electric archtop guitar that it first introduced in 1962.
Hot Club Records is looking for help in creating the International Gypsy Jazz Archive at www.nordi.no/music/hcr/.
Blues fans will enjoy the Blue Flame CafŽ's biographical encyclopedia of blues singers and players at www.blueflamecafe.com.
Sheet Music Plus at www.musicianstore.com/store/Sheetmusicstore.tmpl has a searchable database of over 220,000 titles.
Shareware Music Machine at www.hitsquad.com/smm/ has over 1,200 freeware and shareware music software programs.
Eliot Fisk's new Web site is up and running at nacimiento.com/efisk.
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