Sinner, you better get ready

Rolling Stone magazine called the Goodbye, Babylon box set, "the greatest anthology of antique Southern sacred song and oratory ever assembled. Packaged like a pioneer-family heirloom — in a cedar case with a nineteenth-century etching of the Tower of Babel on the lid — Goodbye, Babylon is six CDs of blues hymns, hillbilly hosannas, choral thunder and hellfire sermons from the 78-rpm era." Boing Boing reader Marc Garrett points us to a short interview he conducted with Lance Ledbetter, compiler of this holy treasure. Link