Fonotopia Episode #2: “Goodbye Babylon” – Early Southern Gospel Music, with Lance Ledbetter
Series: Fonotopia with Ian Nagoski
From: Fonotopia Radio
Length: 00:59:00
Lance Ledbetter's epic Goodbye Babylon (Dust-to-Digital, 2003) is a six-CD set of southern gospel songs and sermons that span the first six decades of the 20th century. He put the CDs in a cedar box, packed it with raw cotton, and arranged the CDs in a cross with a cottonstalk running through it -- Ian calls the set "a whole vision of the South."
The music and sermons are amazing. Lance stops by to share some of them with Ian and tell the stories behind them.
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Lance Ledbetter's epic Goodbye Babylon (Dust-to-Digital, 2003) is a six-CD set of southern gospel songs and sermons that span the first six decades of the 20th century. He put the CDs in a cedar box, packed it with raw cotton, and arranged the CDs in a cross with a cottonstalk running through it -- Ian calls the set "a whole vision of the South."
The music and sermons are amazing. Lance stops by to share some of them with Ian and tell the stories behind them.
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This is a straight 59 minutes.
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