![]() ![]() Over the past decade they have issued dozens more anthologies and other works. It sold well, too, and laid the foundation for a record label, Dust-to-Digital, which Mr Ledbetter now runs with his wife, April. The collection, “Goodbye, Babylon”, costs $100 and comes in a cedar box packed with raw cotton, along with a 200-page book documenting the selection. ![]() ![]() Instead, in 2003, he ended up releasing a set of six discs-five of music and one of sermons. This stoked an obsession which led to what Mr Ledbetter originally intended to be a one-CD collection of some of the rarer gospel recordings. “I could not believe how much incredible music you couldn’t walk into a record store and buy,” he says. Much of the material had been unavailable for years. Some dusted off old 78rpm recordings that he went on to play on the air. Unable to find a large enough variety of gospel songs to fill the show (and fit his tastes), he started approaching collectors. A lot of his listeners in Atlanta were on the way to or from church. LANCE LEDBETTER’S interest in obscure music began in the 1990s with a college-radio programme he hosted on Sunday mornings. ![]()
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