VA - Goodbye Babylon (2004) [Folk / Gospel] {FLAC}

http://www.allmusic.com/album/goodbye-babylon-mw0000333862

http://www.dust-digital.com/goodbye-babylon/

Goodbye, Babylon: A Patchwork Quilt of American Music

GOODBYE, BABYLON
A Patchwork Quilt of American Music
By James Calemine

"Two white horses side by side
Me an My Lord gon' take a ride."
--"Goodbye, Babylon"

Goodbye, Babylon exists as one of the most esteemed spiritual music collections ever released. This fine-crafted cedar box, packaged with raw cotton, contains 5CDs, totaling 135 songs recorded from 1902-1960, and 1 CD featuring 25 sermons from 1926 through 1941. This stunning 2003 release proves a definitive compendium on American music. Recently, I met Dust To Digital president, Lance Ledbetter, and this is the Swampland introduction to highlighting Dust To Digital’s prestigious catalogue. Goodbye, Babylon represents the company’s first release.

A 200 page book accompanies the music. Each page of the book is dedicated to every featured artist. Each page also contains a Biblical passage and lyric transcriptions for songs.

Neil Young drew a great deal of attention to Goodbye, Babylon when he told a reporter from The Weekend Edition: “I recently got a gift from Bob Dylan, a good old friend of mine. He gave me a gospel collection of great old American music and early country roots from old 78s. It’s the original wealth of our recorded music; it’s the cream of the crop and has the history of each recording. It’s a great old set called Goodbye, Babylon and it’s incredible. It’s in a wooden box and everything, and it’s just beautiful.”

It took Dust To Digital president, Lance Ledbetter, four-and-a-half years to complete this timeless collection. Goodbye, Babylon received 2 GRAMMY Award nominations (Best Historical Album and Best Boxed Set or Special Limited package) in 2004. Ledbetter told me he received about two-thousand calls a month for a spate of time after Neil Young’s plug.

Goodbye, Babylon epitomizes Dust To Digital’s mission statement to “produce quality cultural artifacts which combine rare, essential recordings of historic images and detailed texts describing artists and their works.”