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A spate of instructional releases targeting beginning and intermediate guitarists have been introduced. The second edition of the Frederick Harris Guitar Series features nine graded collections of solo classical guitar music and one of scales and arpeggios. Fretboard Vision for Guitar (Sound Perspective Publishing, [818] 904-1618), a new book by Paul Damon Raskin, focuses on mastering the fretboard. Warner Brothers' Beyond Basics videos include Keith Wyatt teaching Acoustic Blues Guitar, Solo Acoustic Blues Guitar, and Acoustic Slide Guitar, and Mark Hanson's Fingerstyle Guitar and Fingerstyle Solo Guitar.
Miller Freeman's All Music Guide to Country offers biographies of more than 1,000 country artists ranging from old-time to alternative, reviews of their best recordings, and resource directories. Also from Miller Freeman comes a new edition of 1,000 Great Guitarists with a ten-track CD by such masters as Martin Carthy, Jim Hall, and Ry Cooder. Written by Hugh Gregory, the book features artist profiles, information on their guitars, and selected discographies.
A tribute album to Kinky Friedman, mystery novelist and founding member of cult band the Texas Jewboys, is in the works. Willie Nelson, Dwight Yoakam, Bob Dylan, and John Prine are among the artists slated to record such Friedman standards as "Asshole from El Paso" and "They Ain't Making Jews Like Jesus Anymore."
Phil Keaggy, Scott Denté, and Wes King have released Invention, which includes four vocal and seven instrumental tracks, on the Sparrow label. For more information, call (615) 371-6889.
Bluegrass icons Jim and Jesse McReynolds received a $10,000 National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowship honoring their musical accomplishments in a traditional art form.
Classical Guitar Alive!, a fast-growing new music program on public radio, is a one-hour weekly show that covers everything from Renaissance to contemporary, solo and multi-instrumental repertoire. The program features interviews with such artists as Manuel Barrueco, the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, Badi Assad, and Paco Peña, as well as theme-based programs such as an overview of contemporary women guitarists. For more information, visit the Web site www.guitaralive.com.
Red House Records has signed singer-songwriter John Gorka to a four-album deal.
Paul Moeller of Wonder Lake, Illinois, won first place in the 1997 International Guitar Concerto Competition. His performance of Guitar Concerto by Lennox Berkeley won him $4,000 and a performance with the Connecticut Concerto Consort, which will be broadcast on public radio.
Muriel Anderson's 1997 All Star Guitar Night took place July 13 at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. Thom Bresh, Ed Gerhard, John Hartford, and John McEuen were among the performers who took part. The next All Star Guitar Night is scheduled for January 31 in Los Angeles. For more information, visit the Web site at www. teleport.com/~richm/asgn.html.
The Erie Art Museum in Erie, Pennsylvania, will present an exhibition of resophonic guitars entitled "Loud and Clear: Resonator Guitars and the Dopyera Brothers' Legacy to American Music" from December 31, 1997, to April 15, 1998. The exhibition, culled from private collections including that of the Dopyera family, will also travel to other venues.
Among the Martins, Gibsons, and other fine instruments that Boston's Skinner auction house will offer at its November 9 sale is a 1954 D'Angelico New Yorker, one of seven large-bodied cutaway New Yorkers built that year. Its worth is estimated at $40,000&endash;50,000. For information, call (508) 779-6241.
A new Web service at www. sunhawk.com allows visitors to browse and buy sheet music from a catalogue and then play or print the score. Users may download the free music viewer and see and hear the first page of a score before deciding whether to buy it.
Joan Armatrading's video of "Everyday Boy" (transcribed in July 1996) can be viewed on the Internet at the Kaman Listening Station, www.KamanMusic.com.
A Web site called Gitarre Spielen (members.aol.com/bmachow660/ gs.html) offers lessons, chat rooms, tab, chord diagrams, and pictures.
The Musicians and Instrument Makers Forum, a Web-based interactive discussion of lutherie, has been organized by luthiers Nicholas Von Robison and Deb Suran. The address is www. mimf.com.
Fingerstylist Michael Gulezian has a Web site at www.buzzworm. com/timbreline.
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