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Hymns to the Joyful

We will soon have information regarding this year's releases, so please stay tuned. In the meantime, feel free to check out this op-ed piece from last week's Independent.

R.E.M. Guitarist Enjoying Recent DTD Releases

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.

Label and Release Profiled in The New Yorker

In this week's New Yorker magazine, Burkhard Bilger writes about the folklorists Art Rosenbaum and Lance Ledbetter and about field recordings of folk music.

Click here to read the article.

Click here to listen to Bilger talk about the history of field recording and introduce samples from Rosenbaum's "Art of Field Recording: Volume 1" and Ledbetter's gospel collection "Goodbye, Babylon."

Click here for a portfolio of photographs, by Sylvia Plachy, taken during recording sessions and performances on Bilger’s route through the South.

"Joe Bussard, Record Hunter" from WYPR

"Well, there are record collections, and then there are record collections that set the record..." (Click here to read an interview with Justin Levy, the show's producer.)

Listen to the show:

Art Rosenbaum and Tony Russell on Soundcheck

The Art of Field Recording
"During his career as a painter and University of Georgia art professor, Art Rosenbaum spent his off hours making field recordings of folk music. He joins us to share stories and songs from a new box set, Art of Field Recording: Volume I, which compiles recordings from the Eisenhower administration through the present."


Country Music Pioneers
"The hard-luck, God-fearing country music of the 1920s and ‘30s is the ancestor of today’s polished Nashville sound. The new book Country Music Originals: The Legends and the Lost charts the genre’s family tree, from big names like Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family to lesser-known musicians (whose stories the book tells for the first time). We talk with author and historian Tony Russell."

Victrola Favorites [DTD-11] : Now Available

Click here to read an article about this project by Michaelangelo Matos that appeared in Seattle Metropolitan Magazine.

Click here for a track list and to hear audio samples.

The two CDs come in a 144 page clothbound, full-color book and will be available in stores on January 22, 2008.

Listen to Victrola Favorites compilers Rob Millis and Jeffrey Taylor discuss their vintage records with Amanda Wilde on KUOW: