Goodbye, Babylon

Goodbye, Babylon $100.00 each


6 CDs and a 200 page book packaged in a cedar box, this set was nominated for two Grammy Awards in 2004.

Where Will You Be Christmas Day?

Where Will You Be Christmas Day? $15.00 each


Collection of vintage Christmas songs featuring recordings made between 1917 and 1959 and featuring a broad spectrum of music.

Fonotone Records (1956-1969)

Fonotone Records (1956-1969) - Out of Print

An elaborate five-disc box set it comes housed in a cigar box with postcards, an extensive booklet, and even a Fonotone church key bottle opener.


How Low Can You Go?

How Low Can You Go? $50.00 each


Three CD box set with 96 page book complete with essays, historic articles, and annotations for each track by Dick Spottswood.


Desperate Man Blues

Desperate Man Blues DVD $20.00 each


This documentary tells the story of record collector Joe Bussard, Jr. who's devoted his life to rescuing roots music from oblivion.


Desperate Man Blues

Desperate Man Blues CD $15.00 each


This CD features 19 prime cuts from Joe Bussard's shelves of 25,000 78s.


I Belong to This Band

I Belong to This Band $15.00 each


Eighty-five Years of Sacred Harp Recordings on a single CD with annotations and essay by by David Warren Steel.


Art of Field Recording Sampler

Art of Field Recording Sampler CD $15.00 each


This sampler CD is released in anticipation of a forthcoming box set with the Rosenbaums.


Art of Field Recording Sampler

Art of Field Recording Volume I $65.00 each


Grammy Award winning, 4 CD box set featuring 50 years of traditional American music documented by Art and Margo Rosenbaum. The package includes a 96-page book with essays and annotations by Art and over 100 illustrations and photographs by Art and Margo.


Melodii Tuvi

Melodii Tuvi: Throat Songs and Folk Tunes from Tuva CD $15.00 each

Single CD featuring recordings of Tuvan folk music and throat-singing recorded in the USSR in 1969 with liner notes by world music scholar Dr. Pekka Gronow.


Black Mirror

Black Mirror: Reflections In Global Musics CD $15.00 each

Single CD of recordings made between 1918-1955 assembled and annotated by Baltimore record shop owner Ian Nagoski.


Victrola Favorites

Victrola Favorites: Artifacts from Bygone Days $40.00 each

Deluxe 144 page clothbound, full-color photograph book with two CDs featuring Burmese guitars, Chinese Opera, Persian folk songs, Fado, Hillbilly, Jazz, Blues and much, much more. The recordings, made between 1920s-50s, were compiled by Rob Millis and Jeffery Taylor of the band Climax Golden Twins.


Art of Field Recording Volume II

Art of Field Recording Volume II $65.00 each

The follow-up to the Grammy Award winning Art of Field Recording Volume I, this 4 CD box set features 50 years of traditional American music documented by Art and Margo Rosenbaum. The package includes a 96 page book with essays and annotations by Art and over 100 illustrations and photographs by Art and Margo.


Take Me to the Water

Take Me to the Water $32.50 each

Making the past present once again, Grammy winners Dust-to-Digital unveil what could easily be seen as the seventh part of their acclaimed Goodbye Babylon box set. Take Me to the Water is a 96-page hardcover book which contains photographs from the collection of Jim Linderman, a scholar of 20th Century self-taught American art and a noted collector of outsider art, early American folk art, and daguerreotype photographs of even earlier American folk art portraits. Also included is a compact disc featuring rare, vintage songs and sermons recorded between 1924-1940 and an introductory essay by Luc Sante.



Goodbye, Babylon Book

Goodbye, Babylon Book $35.00 each

This 200-page book contains essays and annotations by noted music researchers Lynn Abbott, David Evans, Ray Funk, Anthony Heilbut, Kip Lornell, Steven Lance Ledbetter, Opal Louis Nations, Bruce Nemerov, Ken Romanowski, Tony Russell, Doug Seroff, Dick Spottswood, David Warren Steel, Guido van Rijn and Charles Wolfe. Each track has its own page listing the artist personnel and recording dates/locations, lyrical transcriptions, commentaries about the song and relevant biblical quotes. In addition to the scholarly text there are more than 150 illustrations.


Au Clair de la Lune

Au Clair de la Lune $7.00 each

Dust-to-Digital proudly inaugurates its vinyl imprint Parlortone with the earliest intelligible recording of the human voice: an historic 20-second version of Au Clair de la Lune made in 1860, 17 years before Thomas Edison invented the phonograph. This one-sided 45rpm record comes complete with an etched back, a descriptive essay and a reproduction of Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville’s original Au Clair phonautogram.


Excavated Shellac: Strings

Excavated Shellac: Strings $15.00 each

Fourteen outstanding performances from the four corners of the world played on stringed instruments and recorded and released on 78rpm records circa 1920-1950. This vinyl LP features fiddles, shamisen, charango, Paraguyan harp, Indian vina, Lebanese oud, Persian violin, Vietnamese moon guitar, and more. Compiled by Jonathan Ward, all tracks are previously unreissued, carefully transferred and mastered and presented with detailed liner notes.


Jesus Christ from A to Z

Jesus Christ from A to Z $12.50 each

In a great Southern metropolis renowned for its preachers, Rev. Johnny L. Jones stood out for his unique delivery that combined solid theological grounding and moody, explosive flights into a high-turbulence zone between song and speech, earning him a reputation as the Fireball Preacher and more famously, The Hurricane. Hear the Hurricane's live congreational recordings on this 12 inch vinyl lp. The source of these recordings are hundreds of reel-to-reel and cassette tapes that Rev. Jones has been making of his church services since 1960.



Dust-to-Digital Black T-Shirt


Dust-to-Digital Black T-Shirt $15.00 each

The DTD logo silkscreened on a black Gildan Ultra Cotton Heavyweight pre-shrunk t-shirt. MEDIUM is the only size available in Black at this time.


Dust-to-Digital Brown T-Shirt


Dust-to-Digital Brown T-Shirt $15.00 each

The DTD logo silkscreened on a brown Gildan Ultra Cotton Heavyweight pre-shrunk t-shirt. Please be sure to specify size: M, L, XL, or 2XL in the Comments box of order form.


Fonotone Black T-Shirt


Fonotone Black T-Shirt $15.00 each

The Fonotone logo silkscreened on a black Gildan Ultra Cotton Heavyweight pre-shrunk t-shirt. Please be sure to specify size: L, XL, or 2XL in the Comments box of order form.


Art of Field Recording White T-Shirt


Art of Field Recording White T-Shirt $20.00 each

White cotton t-shirt with photograph of Art Rosenbaum sketching Maybel Cawtorn on front and color box cover on back. Please be sure to specify size: M, L, or XL in the Comments box of order form.


Art of Field Recording Gray T-Shirt


Art of Field Recording Gray T-Shirt $20.00 each

Gray cotton t-shirt with photograph of Art Rosenbaum sketching Maybel Cawtorn on front and color box cover on back. Please be sure to specify size: M, L, or XL in the Comments box of order form.


Awake, My Soul

Awake, My Soul: The Story of the Sacred Harp DVD $22.00 each

Feature length DVD released in 2006 by Awake Productions. The film offers a glimpse into the lives of singers, and the history of this 'Lost Tonal Tribe' whose story is one of both revellion and tradition. The filmmakers, Matt and Erica Hinton, gained unparalleled access to traditional Southern singers and dedicated much of the past seven years to documenting this significant, yet largely unknown art form. Narrated by Alt-Country singer, Jim Lauderdale.


Everybody's Tuned to the Radio

Everybody's Tuned to the Radio: Rural Music Traditions in West Georgia, 1947-1979 CD $16.50 each

This CD includes a booklet with an essay and historical photographs drawn from the Regional Music Collection of the State University of West Georgia. Published by University of West Georgia.


Alton Stitcher

Alton Stitcher: I Hear a Sweet Voice Calling CD $16.50 each

A collection of new and vintage recordings of old-time country music, traditional folk songs, and original compositions by Alton Stitcher. Published by University of West Georgia.


Set Your Fields On Fire


Set Your Fields On Fire Volume 1: A Collection of Sacred Music CD $16.50 each

This CD contains vintage and new recordings of Shape note, black gospel, bluegrass gospel, spiritual and Southern gospel music. Published by University of West Georgia.


Set Your Fields On Fire


Set Your Fields On Fire Volume 2: A Collection of Sacred Music CD $16.50 each

This collection features sacred music from both black and white communities, ranging from traditional songs traced back to the time of slavery to original songs written by performers. The recordings, from the 1920s through 2006, exemplify the Center for Public History's efforts to preserve regional music traditions.