DUST-TO-DIGITAL

Dust-to-Digital, the Atlanta-based culture trove and record label founded in 1999 by wife, , joined him a few years later—reinvented the box set in 2003, six CDs of gospel songs and sermons, rescued from a vestigial South and presented in a cedar box with raw cotton. On the discs, Ernest Phipps and His Holiness Singers sang about what to do “If the Light Has Gone Out of Your Soul.” Blind Willie Johnson answered with “Take Your Burden to the Lord and Leave It There.” Reverend George Jones warned not to ride “That White Mule of Sin.”