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Recommended by us on 21st May 2009
...according to our Phil on Thu 21 May, 2009.
Just a quickie to let you know about this rather fantastic thing on Dust To Digital . It's called 'Take Me To The Water: Immersion Baptism In Vintage Music' and it sort of does what it says on the tin. This package is both a treat for the eyes and ears as it's simultaneously a book and a CD based on the tradition of immersion and submersion baptism which went on in America from the 1890's to 1950 (though I'm sure it still goes on today). The book is gorgeous.... 75 sepia photos packed full of folks immersed in water (dressed in their best as a rule) on what is largely one of the happiest days in their lives. It's some moving shit I can say... as is the 25 track CD which features largely religious blues tracks and sermons from folks like Washington Phillips, Dock Walsh, The Carter Family (quite a few of these appeared on some of the Harry Smith comps on Revenant). It's a stunning looking thing and a total wet dream for anyone into American folk music history. Dust To Digital rules......(..and Photography 1890-1950) The latest release from Grammy Award-winning reissue label Dust-to-Digital gives music fans another reason to rejoice. A stunning 96-page hardcover book of historic baptism photographs, taken between 1890 and 1950 and compiled from the collection of noted folk art collector Jim Linderman, is accompanied by a CD of rare gospel and folk recordings from original 78 RPM records (1924-1940), featuring artists Washington Phillips, Carter Family, Tennessee Mountaineers, and more. Produced by the 2009 Grammy winner for "Best Historical Album," Steven Lance Ledbetter. The CD could easily be seen as the seventh disc of Goodbye, Babylon (DTD 001CD), Dust-to-Digital's critically-acclaimed and Grammy-nominated box set from 2003. Original 78 RPM records came from the collections of Joe Bussard, Steven Lance Ledbetter, Frank Mare and Roger Misiewicz. "Whether you have ever actually experienced a baptism or not, whether you are a believer or not, these pictures and the music that accompanies them transmit all the emotional information: the excitement and the serenity, the fellowship and the warmth, the wind and the water ... You would have to have a heart of tin not to recognize this as one of the happiest collections of archival photographs ever assembled." --From the introduction by Luc Sante. 96-page hardcover book (8.75 x 6 inches) with 75 sepia photograph reproductions from 1890-1950; CD includes 25 songs and sermons from 1924-1940.
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