Flotsam & Jetsam » Music http://zekeman.com blatherings and ephemera that I learn and find about Technology, Chocolate, Food and miscellaneous tidbits. Thu, 14 Jul 2011 02:36:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Roots of American Music http://zekeman.com/2008/12/roots-of-american-music/ http://zekeman.com/2008/12/roots-of-american-music/#comments Sat, 20 Dec 2008 18:11:20 +0000 Zeke http://zekeman.com/?p=174 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:

http://dust-digital.com/index.htm

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