Overview
Jesse P. Karlsberg and Alan Pike interview 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
Recommended Resources
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/.