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Take Me To The Water: Immersion Baptism In Vintage Music...

Label: Dust-To-Digital

Format: BOOK + CD

Genre: Folk

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..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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Cat. number: DTD-13
Year: 2009
Notes:

Early 20th century gospel music together with a 6"x9" approx. 50pp book of photography and essays chronicling the late nineteenth and early twentieth century practice of immersion baptism and it's associated gospel music. Annotated with essays by Jim Linderman and Luc Sante. Notes on songs and sermons by Steven Lance Ledbetter. Songs and sermons from 1924-1940 from the collections of Joe Bussard, Steven Lance Ledbetter, Frank Mare and Roger Misiewicz.

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