I’ve always been a big fan of early American Music – Blues, gospel, country, jazz & folk. Oftentimes, finding recordings or collections of music other than stuff that’s already made it to the mainstream can be difficult. Back in 2002 I came across an amazing collection called “Goodbye, Babylon” which was a collection of Gospel songs from the Rural South. Since then, Dust-to-Digital, the company that released the collection, has continued to seek out old recordings and collections that have been lost or forgotten and is slowly releasing them to the public. They’re a good example to the music industry as a whole of a model that works – give people a good product that they’d be willing to pay for and, guess what, they’ll actually pay for it.
If you like hearing music from the Roots of US music, I highly recommend their stuff: