Goodbye, Babylon [Box set]
Editorial Reviews
<"b0000dbocb5020"> David Fricke, Rolling Stone, January 22, 2004
This fantastic box of holy ruckus is the greatest anthology of antique Southern sacred song and oratory ever assembled.
<"b0000dbocb5019"> Will Hermes, Spin, March 2004
"Goodbye, Babylon" is one of the most impressive collections of gospel recordings ever assembled.
<"b0000dbocb4999"> Album Description
Goodbye Babylon is a 6 CD gospel reissue collection. 5 CDs contain 135 songs from 1902-1960 and the 6th disc is comprised of 25 sermons recorded between 1926-1941. Also included is a 200 page book complete with Bible verses, lyric transcriptions, and notes for each recording, plus over 200 illustrations. - Art direction and design by World of anArchie, the Grammy® winning team behind "Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues: The Worlds of Charley Patton," and other fine works such as "Dock Boggs Country Blues," and "Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, Volume IV." - Sound restoration and mastering by Airshow Mastering, the team that restored the "Anthology of American Folk Music" (Smithsonian Folkways, 1997), and won a Grammy® for their work on "Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues: The Worlds of Charley Patton" (Revenant, 2002). - Reverently packed in raw cotton and housed in a deluxe 8" x 11" x 2.5" cedar box. Notes and essays by musicologists and scholars, including several Grammy® winners. - Contributors include Lynn Abbott, David Evans, Ray Funk, Anthony Heilbut, Kip Lornell, Luigi Monge, Paul Oliver, Opal Louis Nations, Bruce Nemerov, Guido van Rijn, Ken Romanowski, Tony Russell, Doug Seroff, Dick Spottswood, Warren Steel, David Tibet, Gayle Dean Wardlow, and Charles Wolfe.
Goodbye, Babylon [Box set]
Goodbye, Babylon, Music, Various Artists, Black Gospel, Bluegrass-Gospel, Box Sets (Audio Only), Country Gospel, Folk Collections, Gospel Choir, Pop, Southern Gospel, Traditional Gospel, V/a Compilations
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