Recording Musical History: An Interview with Lance Ledbetter of Dust-to-Digital Records
Southern Spaces interviews Lance Ledbetter at his home, which also houses Dust-to-Digital Records, in Atlanta, Georgia, March 13, 2012. Ledbetter discusses the history of the label, working with record collectors, and his new project Music Memory.
Interview
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Recommended Resources
Print
Cantwell, Robert. “Smith's Memory Theater: The Folkways Anthology of American Folk Music.” New England Review 13 (Spring–Summer 1991): 364–397.
Daniel, Wayne W. Pickin' on Peachtree: A History of Country Music in Atlanta, Georgia. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2001.
Dean, Eddie. “Desperate Man Blues: Record collector Joe Bussard parties like it's 1929.” Washington City Paper, February 12, 1999. http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/16690/desperate-man-blues
Ely II, Macel. Ain't No Grave: The Life & Legacy of Brother Claude Ely. Atlanta, GA: Dust-to-Digital, 2011.
Katz, Mark. Capturing Sound: How Technology Has Changed Music. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.
Kenney, William Howland. Recorded Music in American Life: The Phonograph and Popular Memory, 1890–1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Minton, John. 78 Blues: Folksongs and Phonographs in the American South. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2008.
Shelemay, Kay Kaufman. “Recording Technology, the Record Industry, and Ethnomusicological Scholarship.” In Comparative Musicology and Anthropology of Music: Essays on the History of Ethnomusicology, edited by Bruno Nettl and Philip V. Bohlman, 277–292. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.
Shuker, Roy. Wax Trash and Vinyl Treasures: Record Collecting As a Social Practice. Farnham, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2010.
Audio
Jones, Johnny L. Rev. Johnny L. Jones: The Hurricane That Hit Atlanta. Dust-to-Digital DTD-17, 2010, 2 compact discs.
Various Artists. Art of Field Recording, Volume 1. Dust-to-Digital DTD-04, 2007, 4 compact discs.
Various Artists. Goodbye, Babylon. Dust-to-Digital DTD-01, 2003, 6 compact discs, book.
Various Artists. Where Will You Be Christmas Day? Dust-to-Digital DTD-02, 2004, compact disc.
Links
Dust-to-Digital Records
http://www.dust-digital.com/
Anthology of American Folk Music
http://www.folkways.si.edu/albumdetails.aspx?itemid=2426
National Jukebox: Historical Recordings from the Library of Congeress
http://www.loc.gov/jukebox/
