Lucinda Williams and Elvis Costello serenade New York.
Photograph by R. Andrew Lepley.

Excerpted from Acoustic Guitar Magazine, November 1999, No. 83.

NEWS | EVENTS | NEW RELEASES | IN MEMORY | CYBERNOTES | SEND NEWS

News RETURN TO TOP	Lucinda Williams and Elvis Costello joined forces on stage at the Guinness Fleadh festival in New York City on June 26 for an impromptu acoustic summit and fashion contest. Richard Thompson, Shane MacGowan, and John Prine were among the other performers.
Events RETURN TO TOP	For a great weekend of music, try the Wings and Strings Americana Music Festival, November 12–14 in Polk City, Florida. Ricky Skaggs, Laurie Lewis and Tom Rozum, Peter Rowan, Balfa Toujours, and a squadron of acoustic daredevils share the runways with vintage aircraft, hot air balloons, and aerial acrobats. Call (941) 984-3500, ext. 222, or check out the Web site at www.wingsandstrings.com. The Northeast Regional Folk Alliance Conference will take place November 12–14 in Lake Harmony, Pennsylvania. Visit www.nefolk.org or call (215) 546-7766 for more information. The protest movement will be marching through Sheffield, England, November 12–18 when the Raise Your Banners Festival of Political Song and Art comes to town. Holly Near, Rory McCleod and Aimee Leonard, Tommy Sands, and Roy Bailey are among the mob of politically motivated singers slated to appear. Raise Your Banners, PO Box 44, Sheffield S4 7RN, U.K.; (44) 0114-249-5185; www.raiseyourbanners.freeserve.co.uk.
New Releases RETURN TO TOP	Looking to expand your library of music business books? Boost your career savvy with This Business of Music Marketing and Promotion, by Tad Lathrop and Jim Pettigrew, Jr., Billboard Books, (800) 278-8477. Diane Sward Rapaport's newly revised fifth edition of How to Make and Sell Your Own Recordings is now available from Jerome Headlands Press, (520) 634-8894, jhpress@sedona.net. Tap into the interactive Internet jukebox with MP3 and the Digital Music Revolution, by John Hedtke, available from Top Floor Publishing, (800) 247-6553, www.topfloor.com. The new video How to Find Gigs that Pay Big Bucks gets right to the point. Interviews with concert and festival promoters, famous rock stars, and Las Vegas entertainment directors provide tips, hints, and secrets of big-time success. Available from Bentley-Hall at (800) 724-9700, ext. 110. National fingerstyle champion Pat Kirtley has recorded a new series of fingerstyle video lessons. The series includes Introduction to Thumbstyle Guitar, a collection of lessons on the Kentucky guitar music of Merle Travis and others; Introduction to Alternate Tunings; and Introduction to Celtic Fingerstyle Guitar. All three are available from Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop, www.guitarvideos.com, (973) 729-5544.
In Memory RETURN TO TOP	Anita Carter, 66, bassist and featured vocalist with the Carter Family, died July 29 in Atlanta. Carter was the daughter of Mother Maybelle and Ezra Carter and sister of June Carter Cash and Helen Carter. The Carters were top stars on several popular country music radio programs before becoming permanent residents of the Grand Ole Opry in the 1950s. They found a new set of fans in the 1960s with the revival of folk music, and Anita recorded several hit country songs and a solo album of folk songs. Luthier Porfirio Delgado died at home on July 28 in East Los Angeles. Delgado and his older brother Candelario built Candelas guitars, which were among the first to incorporate cutaways. The Delgados built guitars for Los Lobos, Arlo Guthrie, Hoyt Axton, José Feliciano, and Andrés Segovia, among many others.
Cybernotes RETURN TO TOP	The information superhighway stretches from the Mississippi Delta to Chicago at www.muddywaters.com, where blues fans can read a biography, view concert footage, and parse song lyrics written by the late McKinley Morganfield, known the world around as Muddy Waters.

 

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