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Music Maker Relief Foundation & Dust-To-Digital

Music Maker Relief Foundation & Dust-To-Digital Preserve The Oldest Traditions
5/2/08

The North Carolina-based Music Maker Relief Foundation artists such as Boo Hanks, Macavine Hayes, Eddie Shaw and The Carolina Chocolate Drops perform at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival this weekend.

Music Maker operates as a non-profit organization dedicated to assisting poor blues musicians with tour support, instruments, life maintenance and day to day needs. Last spring I interviewed Music Maker President Tim Duffy who provided an in-depth insight to the organization’s provenance, accomplishments and intentions.

Another indelible organization, located here in Atlanta—Dust To Digital—ranks as the world’s most comprehensive digital library of the rarest 78rpm recordings. I intend to interview my friend and Dust to Digital President Lance Ledbetter in the upcoming weeks.

The most beautiful Dust To Digital package—Goodbye, Babylon—exists as one of my most prized music collections. It’s a hard Cedar box, packed with raw cotton, 6 CDs and a beautiful psalm book that completes this galaxy of rare and obscure recordings.

Dust To Digital’s Fonotone Records collection exists as a formidable compendium that includes some of the most rural mountain music you’ll ever hear. Also investigate other Dust To Digital recordings such as Desperate Man Blues, Where Will You Be Christmas Day?, I Belong To This Band and the amazing anthology of string bass called How Low Can You Go? The string bass anthology revolves around seminal jazz greats from this dispatch’s point of entry…New Orleans.

James Calemine

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