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The Dust-to-Digital Discography

Our digital catalog in one purchase.

More than a century of rare recordings, in one place

Since Goodbye, Babylon in 2003, Dust-to-Digital has worked to bring rare and overlooked recordings back into circulation. This bundle includes every Dust-to-Digital release available for download: gospel and blues field recordings from the American South, African rumba, Thai luk thung, Moroccan 45s, Sacred Harp singing, Appalachian string bands, and more, including Grammy-winning and Grammy-nominated releases.


Bought one at a time, these titles add up to more than $890. The full discography is $430.


What is included

  • 52 digital albums, including Goodbye, Babylon, Opika Pende: Africa at 78 RPM, Music of Morocco: Recorded by Paul Bowles, 1959, Art of Field Recording Volumes I and II, and the Excavated Shellac series
  • The digital book Washington Phillips and His Manzarene Dreams (DTD-54)
  • Hundreds of tracks as high-quality MP3 downloads
  • All liner notes, essays and booklets included with each release
  • Your own library of every album, yours to keep
  • See the full release list at the bottom of this page

The Dust-to-Digital Discography

$430

How to download

  1. Complete your purchase.
  2. Create a free account using your email address and a password.
  3. Your library opens, with every album in the discography listed by its cover.
  4. Click an album, then click Download. Each album downloads as a single zip file of MP3s.
  5. Return to your library and choose the next album. Download them one at a time, whenever you like.

Your library is always there. To return, log in at payhip.com/dusttodigital/b-account.


  • Album files are large, some over 500 MB, so we recommend downloading on a computer with a reliable connection.

As with all of our digital releases, these albums are offered as high-quality MP3 files. If you would like WAV or FLAC files, please email us at info@dust-digital.com, and we will send you links to those formats at no additional cost.


Bundle Includes

Here are all the products that are included in your bundle

Full Release List

DTD-01: Goodbye, Babylon

DTD-02: Where Will You Be Christmas Day?

DTD-03: Fonotone Records: Frederick, Maryland (1956-1969)

DTD-04: How Low Can You Go?: Anthology of the String Bass

DTD-06: I Belong to This Band: 85 Years of Sacred Harp Recordings

DTD-07: Art of Field Recording Sampler

DTD-08: Art of Field Recording Volume I: Fifty Years of Traditional American Music Documented by Art Rosenbaum

DTD-09: Melodii Tuvi: Throat Songs and Folk Tunes from Tuva

DTD-12: Art of Field Recording Volume II: Fifty Years of Traditional American Music Documented by Art Rosenbaum

DTD-13: Take Me to the Water: Immersion Baptism in Vintage Music and Photography

DTD-15: Ain't No Grave: The Life and Legacy of Brother Claude Ely

DTD-16: Baby, How Can It Be?: Songs of Love, Lust and Contempt from the 1920s and 1930s

DTD-17: Rev. Johnny L. “Hurricane” Jones: The Hurricane That Hit Atlanta

DTD-19: Never a Pal Like Mother: Songs & Photographs of the One Who’s Always True

DTD-20: … i listen to the wind that obliterates my traces

DTD-21: John Fahey: Your Past Comes Back to Haunt You (The Fonotone Years 1958-1965)

DTD-22: Opika Pende: Africa at 78 RPM

DTD-23: I Have My Liberty!: Gospel Sounds from Accra Ghana

DTD-24: Drop On Down in Florida: Field Recordings of African American Traditional Music 1977-1980

DTD-25: Pictures of Sound: One Thousand Years of Educed Audio: 980-1980

DTD-26: Lonnie Holley: Just Before Music

DTD-27: Greek Rhapsody: Instrumental Music from Greece 1905-1956

DTD-28: Longing for the Past: The 78 rpm Era in Southeast Asia

DTD-29: Luk Thung: Classic & Obscure 78s from the Thai Countryside

DTD-30: Qat, Coffee & Qambus: Raw 45s from Yemen

DTD-31: Sorrow Come Pass Me Around: A Survey of Rural Religious Black Music

DTD-32: Kassidat: Raw 45s from Morocco

DTD-33: Lonnie Holley: Keeping a Record of It

DTD-34: Michigan-I-O: Alan Lomax and the 1938 Library of Congress Folk-Song Expedition

DTD-36: Arkansas at 78 RPM: Corn Dodgers and Hoss Hair Pullers

DTD-37: Parchman Farm: Photographs and Field Recordings: 1947–1959

DTD-38: Lead Kindly Light: Pre-War Music and Photographs from the American South

DTD-40: Ola Belle Reed and Southern Mountain Music on the Mason-Dixon Line

DTD-41: J.B. Smith: No More Good Time in the World for Me

DTD-42: Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock and Roll Soundtrack

DTD-43: Folksongs of Another America: Field Recordings from the Upper Midwest, 1937-1946

DTD-44: Excavated Shellac: Strings

DTD-45: Excavated Shellac: Reeds

DTD-46: Music of Morocco: Recorded by Paul Bowles, 1959

DTD-47: Joe Bussard Presents: The Year of Jubilo - 78 RPM Recordings of Songs from the Civil War

DTD-48: Blind Alfred Reed: Appalachian Visionary

DTD-50: Brian Harnetty: Rawhead & Bloodybones

DTD-52: Listen All Around: The Golden Age of Central and East African Music

DTD-53: Voices of Mississippi: Artists and Musicians Documented by William Ferris

DTD-54: Digital Book: Washington Phillips and His Manzarene Dreams

DTD-55: Excavated Shellac: An Alternate History of the World’s Music (1907-1967)

DTD-56: Gonora Sounds: Hard Times Never Kill

DTD-57: From the Lion Mountain: Traditional Music of Yeha, Ethiopia

DTD-58: Bolinus Brandaris: Flamenco from the Bay of Cadiz

DTD-59: Babe Stovall: Pied Piper of New Orleans

DTD-60: Roosevelt Holts: Sun Gonna Shine

DTD-61: Excavated Shellac: Voices

PT-4001: Rev. Johnny L. “Hurricane” Jones: Jesus Christ from A to Z


Not included

  • DVD releases
  • Book-only titles
  • Harry Smith’s B-Sides, which we are not permitted to sell digitally
  • The audio for Washington Phillips and His Manzarene Dreams. The 76-page book is included.