Congratulations to James Towler, recording engineer for Steve Winwood's Nine Lives. The Music Producers Guild has nominated Towler for Recording Engineer of the Year. The guild's awards ceremony will be held on February 12th 2009 at London's Cafe de Paris.

According to its website, the Music Producers Guild Awards "aims to recognise the enormous contribution recording professionals make to the success of the UK's music industry." You can find out more about the Music Producers Guild and its awards ceremony by visiting http://mpg.org.uk/news_stories/112.

Best of luck to James!