Should I spent $100 I don't have on the Goodbye Babylon box set?

(ahem)

the packaging IS lovely and a great deal of the music is astonishing & matos is OTM about the sermons disc too.

without this i would never have heard of washington phillips... an artist i am now desperate to hear everything by.

It has some overlap with this box, but not entirely. It does have all 16 Washington Phillips tracks. However, there is just now a new remaster of his material from Yazoo entitled "The Key To The Kingdom". That's a nice disc, and the guy who did the liner notes for the previous release took the opportunity to correct all the facts that he got wrong last time ("I Am Born To Preach The Gospel").

jsp recently put out two box sets of prewar gospel and gospel-blues for about $25 each.

As far as I know, neither JSP set contains the sermons, though.

And, of course, JSP doesn't package their discs with raw cotton.

the sermons are compelling & fascinating.

a whole cd of gates sermons came out on columbia (!!) last year. though he was the most popular of the preachers-on-record, he wasn't the best or most interesting by any means.

a few months ago i got the "Good News: 100 Gospel Greats" 4cd boxset for 20$. i was kinda bummed because almost all of it was acapella small groups Jubilee type shit (kinda like the Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet). i liked it, but 4cds was kinda much.

i also got the bluegrass box from them. pretty cool little lable.

jsp has better sound quality than proper, all told. and jsp tends to release "complete" collections and proper releases more survey-style stuff. although that's changing in the former case. jsp just released a hawaiian music box set, i need to pick that up.

jsp does four-cd boxes too! in fact most of their boxes are 4 cds. but yeah some of them are 5.

the jsp bluegrass box is great. the proper one is ok but has the most atrocious graphic design ever. proper's design is hit and miss. jsp's is always kind of the same, which is to say tolerable enough.

not all of document sounds like that; it doesn't matter so much for a sermon, anyhow. (as long as you can make out the words!)

but yeah, i'm not stopping anyone from buying this, i just have a strong reaction against stuff that's so lavishly packaged and priced accordingly. i'd rather just have the music and not the wooden box that won't fit on my shelf and the cotton etc. seems rather silly. and yes, i hate fun.

http://eldiablotuntun.blogspot.com/search?q=Goodbye+Babylon

did anyone see the article in the nyer abt the dude who put this together?

Is there a more general Dust-to-Digital thread? I can't see one...

New release, "Take Me To The Water: Immersion Baptism In Vintage Music", looks as unavoidably tempting as ever.

oh really? sounds great.

anyone heard any of these?

actually may just be one single non-dtd release of the earliest recording of the human voice.

disc 1 of this is really great. WOW at "Lift Him Up That's All" by Washington Phillips.