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Music CD - Various Artists: Goodbye, Babylon
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Music CD: Goodbye, Babylon
Artist: Various Artists
List Price: $104.95
Our Price: $86.91
Your Save: $ 18.04 ( 17% )
Availability: Usually ships in 6 to 11 days
Manufacturer: Dust-to-Digital
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1. Rev. T.T. Rose - Goodbye, Babylon
2. Da Costa Woltz's Southern Broadcasters - Are You Washed in the Blood of the Lamb
3. Roosevelt Graves and Brother - Woke up this Morning (with My Mind on Jesus)
4. Alabama Sacred Harp Singers - Present Joys
5. Blind Lemon Jefferson - All I Need is that Pure Religion
6. JE Mainer - Satisfied
7. Chuck Wagon Gang - As the Life of a Flower
8. Holy Ghost Sanctified Singers - Thou Carest Lord, for Me
9. Washington Phillips - Lift Him up That's All
10. Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet - Rock My Soul
11. Ernest V. Stoneman - There's a Light Lit up in Galilee
12. Arizona Dranes - Crucifixion
13. The Blue Chips - Crying Holy unto the Lord
14. Louvin Brothers - I'll Never Go Back
15. Mahalia Jackson - God's Gonna Separate the Wheat from the Tares
16. Luther Magby - Blessed are the Poor in Spirit
17. Blind Gary Davis - I Belong to the Band - Hallelujah!
18. Carter Family - River of Jordan
19. Lil McClintock - Sow Good Seeds
20. Bryant's Jubilee Quartet - I'll Be Satisfied
21. Frank Palmes - Troubled 'Bout My Soul
22. Bascom Lamar Lunsford - Dry Bones
23. Carlisle Brothers - Jesus My All
24. Taskiana Four - Creep Along, Moses
25. Tennessee Music and Printing Company Quartet - Joy Bells
26. Elder David Ross - He Gave Me a Heart to Love
27. Bessie Jones and the Sea Island Singers - O Day
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0880226000011
Format: Box set
Label: Dust-to-Digital
Manufacturer: Dust-to-Digital
Number Of Discs: 6
Publisher: Dust-to-Digital
Release Date: 2003-10-27
Studio: Dust-to-Digital
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Use Caution When Buying
Comment: Having read the enthusiastic reviews here and in the the New York Times, I couldn't wait for this boxed set to arrive. Unfortunately, when it did arrive I sure wished I could get a refund.
No doubt this material is of interest to scholars. But anyone just looking for something enjoyable to listen to is in for a disappointment.
I have listened to plenty of old recordings but the sound quality on this is by far the worst I have ever heard, bar none. You really can't enjoy the music. The quality is so poor that one track of a particular genre doesn't register as any different from another. Listening to it is just plain painful.
So if you are a music library you might want to spend your money on this.
But, if you are just a gospel fan, you may want to spend your money on the many other fine gospel recordings out there.
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Summary: A truly splendid collection
Comment: This is one of the most wide-ranging and wonderful collections of early roots music I've found. The performances range from gospel quartets and choirs through blues and jug bands, pulling together influences from gospel, bluegrass and country, jazz, and blues. And then there's an entire disc of sermons, with such gems (no pun intended) as "Black Diamond Express to Hell". Great stuff, and a wonderfully eclectic collection of early roots music, gospel or not.
The sound quality is very good, especially given the age of many of the sources.
There's not a ton of historical/biographical info in the 200+ page book, but the inclusion of all the lyrics of every song is a huge win. The packaging is as cool as it looks, but isn't terribly practical for day-to-day use. That wasn't a problem for me, as I ripped all six CDs and have primarily played them off my computers, but could be a nuisance for some.
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Summary: This Is A Must-Have
Comment: This set includes 5 music CD's plus 1 preaching CD. All six are good ones and each individual CD is put together according to a single theme; salvation, judgement, etc. I listen to this over and over again and I never tire of it. Maybe this is a bit pricy, but still it's worth every cent.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A piece of America
Comment: I have had this set for over a year and I still have not listened to it all. 135 songs of such diverse and interesting variety and styles. The music is so raw in most cases that it speaks to the gut first, then the heart.
Dust to Digital is the best outfit in the world for locating and assembling such massive historical recordings. This is the most pleasureable set of gospel (if you can limit it to that genre) music, ever. Thank you DtoD.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Goodbye Babylon is a 6 CD gospel reissue collection. 5 CDs contain 135 songs from 1902-1960 and the 6th disc is comprised of 25 sermons recorded between 1926-1941. Also included is a 200 page book complete with Bible verses, lyric transcriptions, and notes for each recording, plus over 200 illustrations. - Art direction and design by World of anArchie, the Grammy® winning team behind "Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues: The Worlds of Charley Patton," and other fine works such as "Dock Boggs Country Blues," and "Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, Volume IV." - Sound restoration and mastering by Airshow Mastering, the team that restored the "Anthology of American Folk Music" (Smithsonian Folkways, 1997), and won a Grammy® for their work on "Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues: The Worlds of Charley Patton" (Revenant, 2002). - Reverently packed in raw cotton and housed in a deluxe 8" x 11" x 2.5" cedar box. Notes and essays by musicologists and scholars, including several Grammy® winners. - Contributors include Lynn Abbott, David Evans, Ray Funk, Anthony Heilbut, Kip Lornell, Luigi Monge, Paul Oliver, Opal Louis Nations, Bruce Nemerov, Guido van Rijn, Ken Romanowski, Tony Russell, Doug Seroff, Dick Spottswood, Warren Steel, David Tibet, Gayle Dean Wardlow, and Charles Wolfe.
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