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- Take Me To The Water: Immersion Baptism In Vintage Music
- Format: CD Album
- Catalogue Number: DTD013CD
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Dust to Digital
- Release Date: 18 May 2009
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PRICE: £29.99
Take Me To The Water: Immersion Baptism In Vintage Music
The latest release from Grammy Award-winning reissue label Dust-to-Digital gives music fans another reason to rejoice. A stunning 96-page hardcover book of historic baptism photographs, taken between 1890 and 1950 and compiled from the collection of noted folk art collector Jim Linderman, is accompanied by a CD of rare gospel and folk recordings from original 78 RPM records (1924-1940), featuring artists Washington Phillips, Carter Family, Tennessee Mountaineers, and more. Produced by the 2009 Grammy winner for "Best Historical Album," Steven Lance Ledbetter.
The CD could easily be seen as the seventh disc of Goodbye, Babylon (DTD 001CD), Dust-to-Digital's critically-acclaimed and Grammy-nominated box set from 2003. Original 78 RPM records came from the collections of Joe Bussard, Steven Lance Ledbetter, Frank Mare and Roger Misiewicz. "Whether you have ever actually experienced a baptism or not, whether you are a believer or not, these pictures and the music that accompanies them transmit all the emotional information: the excitement and the serenity, the fellowship and the warmth, the wind and the water ... You would have to have a heart of tin not to recognize this as one of the happiest collections of archival photographs ever assembled." --From the introduction by Luc Sante. 96-page hardcover book (8.75 x 6 inches) with 75 sepia photograph reproductions from 1890-1950; CD includes 25 songs and sermons from 1924-1940.
Track Listing
01. Rev. J. M. Gates "Baptize Me"
02. Washington Phillips "Denomination Blues part 1"
03. Moses Mason "John the Baptist"
04. Dock Walsh "Bathe in That Beautiful Pool"
05. Carter Family "On My Way to Canaan's Land"
06. Rev. R. M. Massey "Old Time Baptism part I"
07. Rev. R. M. Massey "Old Time Baptism part II"
08. Southern Wonders Quartet "Go Wash in the Beautiful Stream"
09. Carolina Tarheels "I'll Be Washed"
10. Elder J. E. Burch "Wash You Make You Clean"
11. Frank Jenkins "Babtist Shout"
12. Tennessee Mountaineers "Shall We Gather At The River"
13. Empire Jubilee Quartet "Wade in the Water"
14. Rev. Nathan Smith "Baptism at Burning Bush"
15. Bill Boyd and His Cowboy Ramblers "Sister Lucy Lee"
16. Belmont Silvertone Jubilee Singers "Wade in the Water and Be Baptized"
17. Ernest Thompson "I'm Going Down to Jordan"
18. Rev. J. C. Burnett "Go Wash in Jordan Seven Times"
19. Birmingham Jubilee Singers "Wade in the Water"
20. J. E. Mainer’s Mountaineers "Goin' Down to the River"
21. Elder J. E. Burch "Baptism by Water, and Baptism by the Holy Ghost"
22. Moses Mason "Go Wash in the Beautiful Stream"
23. Sunset Four Jubilee Singers "Wade in the Water"
24. Uncle Eck Dunford "Down To Jordan"
25. Rev. E. D. Campbell "Take Me to the Water"
