"Take Me to the Water"

From the introduction to Take Me to the Water: Immersion Baptism in Vintage Music and Photography 1890-1950:

"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. They are about theatre, pageantry, holiday; inclusion, transformation, enveloping love and transporting joy. They show a great many people in the midst of one of the peak experiences of their lives. Even the calmest scenes are electrified by the ecstasy of the actors. You would have to have heart of tin not to recognize this as one of the happiest collections of archival photographs ever assembled." — Luc Sante, from the Introduction to the Take Me to the Water: Immersion Baptism in Vintage Music and Photography 1890-1950

And from the description at Vimeo:

Making the past present once again, Grammy winners Dust-to-Digital unveil what could easily be seen as the seventh part of their acclaimed Goodbye Babylon box set. Take Me to the Water is a 96-page hardcover book which contains photographs from the collection of Jim Linderman, a scholar of 20th Century self-taught American art and a noted collector of outsider art, early American folk art, and daguerreotype photographs of even earlier American folk art portraits. Also included is a compact disc featuring rare, vintage songs and sermons recorded between 1924-1940 and an introductory essay by Luc Sante.

I own Dust to Digital's Goodbye Babylon and ordered this one this morning as soon as I became aware of its existence.

Dust-to-Digital : Take Me to the Water: Immersion Baptism in Vintage Music and Photography 1890-1950 [DTD-13]