Dust-to-Digital
| Dust-to-Digital | |
|---|---|
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| Founded | 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 specialises on 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 the 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 18 titles, and more are planned for the future.
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-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-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
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
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
- ↑ "Review: Various Artists, Goodbye Babylon". Uncut magazine. 2005-12-02. Retrieved 2010-04-19.
- ↑ Taylor, Charles (2004-02-15). "Vintage gospel box set receives ecstatic review in Mojo magazine.". Crossrhythms magazine. Retrieved 2010-04-19.
- ↑ Daniel M. Gill (2004-04-16). "Goodbye Babylon". Dusted magazine. Retrieved 2010-04-19.
References
The New Yorker "The Last Verse"
Pitchfork-Various Artists: The Art of Field Recording, Vol. 1
Interview with Lance Ledbetter