Once a week from January to March Greg Bjork drives from Orono to Portland and back. That’s a round-trip of about 270 miles.

When R.E.M. began working on their 1991 album Out of Time, guitarist Peter Buck started learning how to play the mandolin and fell into a riff and then a chorus. With a tape recorder running, Buck’s ...

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