![]() ![]() ![]() Various Artists: Voices of Mississippi: Artists and Musicians Documented by William Ferris. You can purchase MP3s and PDFs at Dust-to Digital’s website (but I can’t fathom why people wouldn’t want to hold these beautifully made items in their hands. ![]() ![]() (They also have over a dozen releases of music from around the globe.) They preserve it by disseminating it, not merely by archiving it, virtually or otherwise. I’ve bought some of their 60-odd releases myself, and the Ledbetters were kind enough to send more to illustrate what they’ve done to preserve American music. What was a one-off project turned into a record label, Dust-to-Digital, helmed by the Ledbetters in Atlanta, Georgia. The set, Goodbye, Babylon, received a Grammy nomination, and Bob Dylan thought enough of it to give Neil Young a copy. I slid back the top of the box to find a thick book, a few clumps of Georgia cotton, and six CDs crammed with rare gospel songs from 1902 to 1960-blues, Sacred Harp, country & western, bluegrass, early jazz, a cappella quartets, you name it-the result of four years of hard work from Lance and April Ledbetter. In 2003, a cedar box appeared in my mailbox, with the words “Goodbye, Babylon” and an illustration of Babel’s famed tower on the front. ![]()
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