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Thursday Things We Like for 8.27: Mountain Music and Juleps. And cheese.

For fans of Old Time and Appalachian music, Smithsonian Folkways’ Backroads to Cold Mountain is a must have.  Compiled by musicologist John Cohen, it’s a great collection of mountain music from the early days of audio recording.  Less intimidating than the sprawling Goodbye, Babylon or the Anthology of American Folk Music, it’s a great primer [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]