Releases List of Dust-to-Digital Releases The album was described as "a sonic smorgasbord from across the globe unfolds: Afghanistan, Sudan, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Uganda, Spain, Albania, Mongolia, Mexico and onwards and onwards." ĭust-to-Digital also published Opika Pende: Africa at 78 RPM, Excavated Shellac: Reeds, and Excavated Shellac: Strings. The digital album was nominated for Grammy 2022 as Best Historical Album. Excavated Shellac Įxcavated Shellac, started in 2007 as a website of "a 78-collector" released Excavated Shellac: An Alternate History of the World’s Music that consists of 100 recordings and 100 stories in 186-page book by Jonathan Ward. A box set chronicling the origins of recorded music in Georgia was planned but never completed. The young record company followed up the set with Where Will You Be Christmas Day? Since 2004, Dust-to-Digital has issued more than 60 titles. The company's success has been partly attributed to its distinctive packaging, presenting products in pine boxes, silk screen, and raw cotton.
The six-CD box set, containing gospel music from 1902 to 1960, and accompanied by a 200-page book and hand-packed with raw cotton in a wooden box, was well-reviewed. After five years of research, Ledbetter issued Goodbye, Babylon on his newly formed Dust-to-Digital label. In February 1999, after taking over an Atlanta college radio station and becoming frustrated at the unavailability of gospel music from before 1940, Lance Ledbetter formed his own label and set out on a search for rare recordings of gospel music. The company has won a Grammy Award and a Living Blues award. Their method combines rare recordings with historic images, photographs, and detailed texts describing artists and their works. Titled Excavated Shellac: Strings (PT 2001LP), it contains 14 exemplary performances on string instruments from across the globe, all from his collection of 78s.Dust-to-Digital is a record company that specializes in documenting the history of American popular music, including historical recordings of blues, gospel, and country music. In 2010, Jonathan released his first LP in a series for Dust-to-Digital's vinyl imprint Parlortone. In 2007, he began the well-known web site Excavated Shellac, which features a wide range of scarce, international 78rpm records from across the globe with extensive commentary. Jonathan Ward is a Los Angeles-based collector, researcher, and writer. 112-page softcover book with 4 CDs in a separate portfolio - all housed in a deluxe cloth slipcase. Pan-African in scope and wildly diverse, Opika Pende is a testament to the deep riches found in early recorded music across the continent. Opika Pende: Africa At 78 RPM is a 4CD collection featuring 100 tracks taken from rare 78rpm recordings of African music (1909 to mid-1960s), none of which have ever been issued on CD until now. 2012 Grammy nominee for Best Historical Album.
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