![]() Following on from Goodbye, Babylon, Dust to Digital has staked its reputation on releasing obscure, hard to find Americana across various genres (gospel, country, folk, jazz, blues, roots) in high quality CD and/or vinyl editions accompanied by photographs, essays, and notes of the sort that have essentially disappeared from the landscape in the wake of streaming’s popular ascendancy. The label’s first release – Goodbye, Bablyon (2003) – is perhaps its best known, and certainly set the bar very high indeed when it came both to packaging (cotton packed in a bespoke wooden crate) and the exacting quality of the liner notes, which ran to some 200-pages for the 6-CD box set and included transcriptions along with analysis and commentary from the likes of Charles Wolfe, Dick Spottswood, and David Warren Steel. ![]() Established in 1999 by then radio DJ Lance Ledbetter in response to what he perceived to be a dearth of American gospel and roots recordings from the 1940s and earlier, Dust to Digital has to date released some 60 titles across multiple formats, including various digital and streaming platforms. ![]()
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