Dust-to-Digital

Entering the Archive

Metadata, music history, and discovering what Dust-to-Digital really does.

Feb 27 • Emmy Glenn and Dust-to-Digital

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December 2025

Dust-to-Digital Radio Is Here + New Foundation Print

A first look at our online radio station, as we continue to build out the programming for 2026.

Dec 31, 2025 • April Ledbetter, Lance Ledbetter, and Dust-to-Digital

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Two New Releases: An Unheralded Blues Artist and Recordings That Demonstrate the Power of the Human Voice

Today, we are excited to present two new albums — each produced by a compiler with whom we have a longstanding relationship: David Evans and Jonathan…

Dec 5, 2025 • Dust-to-Digital, April Ledbetter, and Lance Ledbetter

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November 2025

Preserving the Past & Sharing It Today: A New Partnership with the University of California

The Dust-to-Digital Foundation and the University of California, Santa Barbara have partnered to make thousands of historic recordings freely accessible…

Nov 7, 2025 • April Ledbetter, Lance Ledbetter, and Dust-to-Digital

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September 2025

Sacred Harp and the Storehouse of Song

This past weekend marked the publication of the "The Sacred Harp: 2025 Edition," and the tunebook's launch produced the largest Sacred Harp singing in…

Sep 19, 2025 • Lance Ledbetter and Dust-to-Digital

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July 2025

The Spirit of 78s: A Record Party and Remembering Frank Mare

Celebrating community, collecting, and the man whose records helped shape our sound.

Jul 18, 2025 • April Ledbetter and Dust-to-Digital

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June 2025

Song Is Existence, Existence Is Song

Remembering Cléoma Breaux, Sly Stone, and Brian Wilson

Jun 30, 2025 • Dust-to-Digital and Lance Ledbetter

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April 2025

The Music Always Around Us

Songs and dances as prayers, heightened curiosity as success, and other recent inspiration from new works.

Apr 4, 2025 • Dust-to-Digital and Lance Ledbetter

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March 2025

Audio Tours and Discussions

Conversations with Terika Dean, director of the Lead Belly estate and legendary record producer Joe Boyd.

Mar 31, 2025 • April Ledbetter, Dust-to-Digital, and Lance Ledbetter

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January 2025

Remembering Elizabeth Cotten on the 132nd anniversary of her birth.

At age 65, she released her first album and changed American folk music forever.

Jan 5, 2025 • Dust-to-Digital, Lance Ledbetter, and April Ledbetter

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December 2024

Remembering Lead Belly on the 75th anniversary of his passing

Huddie Ledbetter, January 1888 — December 6, 1949.

Dec 6, 2024 • Dust-to-Digital and Lance Ledbetter

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Pied Piper of New Orleans

The life and music of Babe Stovall documented by David Evans

Dec 6, 2024 • Dust-to-Digital, Lance Ledbetter, and April Ledbetter

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