Dust-to-Digital

Dust-to-Digital
Founded 1999 (1999)
Founder Steven Lance Ledbetter
Genre Gospel, country, blues, jazz, world
Country of origin  U.S.
Location Atlanta, Georgia
Official website dust-digital.com

Dust-to-Digital is a record company which specializes in documenting the history of American popular music, including historical recordings of blues, gospel, and country music. They have described their aim as the production of high-quality cultural artifacts which combine rare recordings with historic images and detailed texts describing artists and their works. The company has won a Grammy award and a "Living Blues" award for their releases.

History

In February 1999, Lance Ledbetter set out on a search for rare recordings of gospel music. After five years of research, Ledbetter issued Goodbye, Babylon on his newly formed Dust-to-Digital label. The six CD box set, accompanied by a 200-page book and hand-packed with raw cotton in a wooden box, was well reviewed.[1][2][3] The young record company followed up the set with Where Will You Be Christmas Day? Since 2004, Dust-to-Digital has issued more than 60 titles, and more are planned for the future. A box set chronicling the origins of recorded music in Georgia was planned but never completed. [4]

Discography

DTD-01: Goodbye, Babylon

DTD-02: Where Will You Be Christmas Day?

DTD-03: Fonotone Records: Frederick, Maryland (1956-1969)

DTD-04: How Low Can You Go? : Anthology of the String Bass (1925-1941)

DTD-05A: Desperate Man Blues: Discovering the Roots of American Music : Soundtrack CD

DTD-05V: Desperate Man Blues: Discovering the Roots of American Music : DVD

DTD-06: I Belong to This Band: 85 Years of Sacred Harp Recordings

DTD-07: Art of Field Recording (Sampler CD)

DTD-08: Art of Field Recording: Volume I : 50 Years of Traditional American Music Documented by Art Rosenbaum : 4 CD set

DTD-09: Melodii Tuvi: Throat Songs and Folk Tunes from Tuva

DTD-10: Black Mirror: Reflections in Global Musics

DTD-11: Victrola Favorites: Artifacts from Bygone Days : 2 CD set

DTD-12: Art of Field Recording: Volume II : 50 Years of Traditional American Music Documented by Art Rosenbaum : 4 CD set

DTD-13: Take Me to the Water: Immersion Baptism in Vintage Music and Photography 1890-1950

DTD-14: Let Your Feet Do the Talkin' : DVD

DTD-15: Ain't No Grave: The Life and Legacy of Brother Claude Ely : Hardcover Biography with CD

DTD-16: Baby, How Can It Be? (Songs of Love, Lust and Contempt from the 1920s and 1930s) : 3 CD set

DTD-17: Rev. Johnny L. "Hurricane" Jones: The Hurricane That Hit Atlanta : 2 CD set

DTD-18: Ten Thousand Points of Light : DVD

DTD-19: Never A Pal Like Mother: Vintage Songs & Photographs of the One Who’s Always True : 2 CD set

DTD-20: ...i listen to the wind that obliterates my traces : 2 CD set

DTD-21: Your Past Comes Back To Haunt You: The Fonotone Years 1958-1965 : 5 CD set

DTD-22: Opika Pende: Africa at 78 RPM : 4 CD set

DTD-23: I Have My Liberty! Gospel Sounds from Accra, Ghana

DTD-24: Drop on Down in Florida: Field Recordings of African American Traditional Music 1977–1980 : 2 CD set

DTD-25: Pictures of Sound: One Thousand Years of Educed Audio: 980–1980

DTD-26: Lonnie Holley: Just Before Music

DTD-27: Greek Rhapsody — Instrumental Music from Greece 1905-1956

DTD-28: Longing for the Past: The 78 rpm Era in Southeast Asia

DTD-29: Luk Thung: Classic & Obscure 78s from the Thai Countryside

DTD-30: Qat, Coffee & Qambus: Raw 45s from Yemen

DTD-31: Sorrow Come Pass Me Around: A Survey of Rural Religious Black Music

DTD-32: Kassidat: Raw 45s from Morocco

DTD-33: Lonnie Holley: Keeping a Record of It

DTD-34: Michigan-I-O: Alan Lomax and the 1938 Library of Congress Folk-Song Expedition

DTD-35: Making Pictures: Three for a Dime

DTD-36: Arkansas at 78 RPM: Corn Dodgers & Hoss Hair Pullers

DTD-37: Parchman Farm: Photographs and Field Recordings: 1947–1959

DTD-38: Lead Kindly Light: Pre-War Music and Photographs from the American South

DTD-39: The Birth of Rock and Roll: Photographs from the collection of Jim Linderman plus a conversation with Joe Bonomo

DTD-40: Ola Belle Reed and Southern Mountain Music on the Mason-Dixon Line

DTD-41: J.B. Smith: No More Good Time in the World for Me

DTD-42: Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock and Roll Soundtrack CD

DTD-43: Folksongs of Another America: Field Recordings from the Upper Midwest, 1937-1946

DTD-44: Excavated Shellac: Strings

DTD-45: Excavated Shellac: Reeds

DTD-46: Music of Morocco: Recorded by Paul Bowles, 1959

DTD-47: Joe Bussard Presents: The Year of Jubilo - 78 RPM Recordings of Songs from the Civil War

DTD-48: Blind Alfred Reed: Appalachian Visionary

DTD-49: Washington Phillips and His Manzarene Dreams

DTD-50: Brian Harnetty: Rawhead & Bloodybones

DTD-51: The Night is Drawing Nigh: Selections from the Berea College Sound Archives

PT-1001: Au Clair de la Lune

PT-2001: Excavated Shellac: Strings

PT-2002: Luk Thung: Classic & Obscure 78s from the Thai Countryside

PT-2003: Qat, Coffee & Qambus: Raw 45s from Yemen

PT-2004: Kassidat: Raw 45s from Morocco

PT-2005: Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten Promotional 45

PT-2006: Excavated Shellac: Reeds

PT-2007: Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten Soundtrack

PT-3001: Sorrow Come Pass Me Around: A Survey of Rural Religious Black Music

PT-4001: Rev. Johnny L. “Hurricane” Jones: Jesus Christ from A to Z

PT-4002: Lonnie Holley: Just Before Music

PT-4003: Lonnie Holley: Keeping a Record of It

Awards and nominations

ARSC Awards

2008
Art of Field Recording Volume I

Nominated for Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research

Victrola Favorites: Artifacts from Bygone Days

Nominated for Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research

2010
Take Me to the Water: Immersion Baptism in Vintage Music and Photography

Nominated for Best Research in Recorded Country Music

2011
Ain't No Grave: The Life and Legacy of Brother Claude Ely

Nominated for Best Historical Research in Blues, Gospel, Hip-Hop, or R&B

2013
Pictures of Sound: One Thousand Years of Educed Audio: 980-1980

Winner of Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research

Grammy Awards

2004
Goodbye, Babylon

Nominated for Best Historical Album

Nominated for Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package

2006
Fonotone Records 1956-1969

Nominated for Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package

2008
Art of Field Recording Volume I

Winner of Best Historical Album

Nominated for Best Liner Notes

2010
Take Me to the Water: Immersion Baptism in Vintage Music and Photography

Nominated for Best Historical Album

2012
Opika Pende: Africa at 78 RPM

Nominated for Best Historical Album

2013
Pictures of Sound: One Thousand Years of Educed Audio: 980-1980

Nominated for Best Historical Album

2014
Longing for the Past: The 78 rpm Era in Southeast Asia

Nominated for Best Historical Album

2016
Parchman Farm: Photographs And Field Recordings, 1947–1959

Nominated for Best Historical Album (winner to be announced on 15 February)

Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Awards

2008
How Low Can You Go?

Nominated for Reissue/Historical Box Set of the Year

Living Blues Awards

2007
Desperate Man Blues Soundtrack CD

Winner of Best Historical Reissue

Lance Ledbetter

Winner of Historical Producer of the Year

Footnotes

  1. ↑ "Review: Various Artists, Goodbye Babylon". Uncut magazine. 2005-12-02. Retrieved 2010-04-19.
  2. ↑ Taylor, Charles (2004-02-15). "Vintage gospel box set receives ecstatic review in Mojo magazine.". Crossrhythms magazine. Retrieved 2010-04-19.
  3. ↑ Daniel M. Gill (2004-04-16). "Goodbye Babylon". Dusted magazine. Retrieved 2010-04-19.
  4. ↑ "An Unfinished State". Oxford American. 2016-01-05. Retrieved 2016-01-05.

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