Tag: Dust to Digital
Interview: Lance Ledbetter from Dust-to-Digital
10 years ago, a Georgia State University student named Lance Ledbetter took over a college radio show about the roots of American music armed only with The Anthology of American Folk Music. Though the collection of early folk, country, jazz, blues, and gospel was formidable enough to keep the show running for a period, Ledbetter [...]
Posted: July 5th, 2009 under Books, Interviews, Music.
Tags: Anthology of American Folk Music, Books, Dust to Digital, Goodbye Babylon, Harry Smith, Lance Ledbetter, Music
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Fa So La
When I was a child, my grandfather sang me odd, halting songs, seemingly atonal and operating within a structure I could scarcely remember, let alone master. Lyrically they were very simple and very much about the Crucifixion and its attendant imagery. The lyrics were preceded by syllables more akin to shouts than notes, and though [...]
Posted: June 23rd, 2009 under Favorites.
Tags: Awake My Soul, Documentaries, Dust to Digital, North Alabama, Sacred Harp
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The Water is Fine
Take Me to the Water from Dust-to-Digital on Vimeo.
Take Me to the Water is, above all else, a book about spectatorship. Largely without text, the photographs are without any sort of context and are in no certain order. After all, you’re looking at photos that, as collector Jim Linderman says, were “found in flea [...]
Posted: June 14th, 2009 under Books.
Tags: baptism, Books, Dust to Digital, Goodbye Babylon, photography, Take Me to the Water
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