Newsletter : December 2006

Season's greetings from Atlanta,
We appreciate all of you who were able to attend the release party we had on the tenth. For those that could not make it, here is a short review. Dr. Warren Steel, the man behind the liner notes to I Belong to This Band, surprised us when he showed up to sing with the West End Sacred Harp Quartet. He was in Alabama earlier in the day for a Sacred Harp singing and decided to continue eastward for the DTD release party. Following the singers was a performance by the Pea Ridge Ramblers. Accompanied by Art Rosenbuam on fiddle, the band brought down the house with their version of "There Ain't No Grave," a cover of the Brother Claude Ely track on Goodbye, Babylon. Little Country Giants closed out the night with David Long sitting in on mandolin and Laura Cortese on fiddle. A two-page spread of photos from the show ran in this week's Access Atlanta.

Also, we have added a few more things to our shopping cart offerings. First, there is the Dust-to-Digital t-shirt that was sold at the release party. Available in brown and black, the shirts feature the DTD logo silkscreened in white on 100% cotton fabric. Second, we are now selling a couple of Tinwood Media releases: How We Got Over: Sacred Songs of Gee's Bend is a two-CD set of recordings made in 1941 and 2002; The Quilts of Gee's Bend is a DVD featuring a 28 minute documentary, audio tracks from How We Got Over, and more than 100 images of quilts by Gee's Bend's artists. The film was produced and directed by Matt Arnett and Vanessa Vadim of Atlanta.

While we are on the subject of the online store, we have been told by the United States Post Office that Priority Mail orders shipped by December 20 (tomorrow) and Express orders shipped by December 22 should arrive by Christmas. Our shipping department will be closed from December 23-27.

Finally, here are some recent reviews of our new releases: How Low Can You Go? was featured in the New York Times and in Kevin Whitehead's roundup of the Best Jazz CD Box Sets on Fresh Air; Desperate Man Blues was reviewed at Allmusic.com; and a review of I Belong to This Band can be found in the current issue of Time Out Chicago.

Thanks for all your support,
Lance Ledbetter
Dust-to-Digital