WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA: 30 Great Concept Albums by Bill Kopp BOOK swamp beat driven tracks sprinkled with

beat driven tracks sprinkled with bits of spaghetti western and old vinyl crackle

Nous is a record of oscillation

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I always have room for

WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA: 30 Great Concept Albums by Bill Kopp BOOK swamp beat driven tracks sprinkled with242 pages, softcover. 1st edition of 400 copies. As long as there has been music, the form has been used as a vehicle for storytelling. Artists who have something to say often find that putting it into music is the ideal means of communicating thoughts and feelings to others. And the concept album form is a logical extension of that storytelling impulse, often writ large. It allows the writer to tackle bigger themes, more involved story lines, more