
From the
Philadelphia Daily News:
For years after R.E.M. broke out (in 1980) of Athens, Ga., with its edgy, jangly, end-of-the-world (and you know it) collegiate rock, Peter Buck was still hanging in and working at a local record store when he was home, to feed his passion for new sounds.
He's still a music-store regular, judging by the enthusiastic remarks he shared about recent disc discoveries, including "long lost Howling Wolf stuff just out on the Dust-to-Digital label" and "psychedelic funk stuff recorded in the '70s in Greece and Turkey that's never been pressed out of the countries until now."
From the
San Francisco Bay Guardian:
PB: Y'know, I just buy records. I really try not be in the position where I have to listen to music that I don't want to listen to. And that’s pretty much the definition of radio so… I buy the older stuff a lot if it gets reissued or I just discover it. So it's just the process of listening to whatever's coming out and focusing on it.
SFBG: What reissues have you liked?
PB: Y'know, there is a company called Dust-to-Digital in Georgia that’s been packaging a lot of early 20th century blues and gospel and folk music - that stuff is always pretty interesting.