book Archive
14 Feb 2020
Bartender-Author Sandlin Gaither on Tequila, Dog Hair and Chainsaw Fights — STORY MOVED
This story has been MOVED to billkopp.com.
12 Jan 2020
Book Review: Rip it Up: The Specialty Records Story
BMG Publishing launched a series of books, the RPM Series, a few years ago. Superficially similar in scope to the 33-1/3 series, these volumes are designed to chronicle the history […]
24 Dec 2019
Musoscribe’s Best of 2019: Books
I’ve read ten music-related books this year (one of those, Billy Vera’s Rip it Up: The Specialty Records Story I’m still reading and will review soon). I enjoyed all of […]
22 Dec 2019
Boxed Set Review: Land of 1000 Dances
Though there were certainly earlier examples, the era of the lavish boxed set began a few decades back; it more or less coincided with the CD era. And it persisted […]
16 Oct 2019
Book Review: The Show Won’t Go On
Popular culture has long held a fascination with death. The old “death and taxes” saw about it being one of life’s inevitabilities speaks to the importance we place upon it. […]
10 Oct 2019
Book Review: “Echoes” by Glenn Phillips
For nearly fifty years, guitarist Glenn Phillips has been making music that defies classification. First with the Hampton Grease Band, and later as a prolific solo artist and active contributor […]
21 Sep 2019
Book Review: There Was a Light
I’m a voracious reader. My tastes run decidedly toward nonfiction, but I like a good narrative. And that’s been the case since I was very young. What I never could […]
09 Sep 2019
Book Review: A Voice of the Warm
Every so often, some of my Facebook friends and I engage in a little game. You might call it Dreadful Earworms: we try to outdo each other by rattling off […]
01 Aug 2019
Book Review: Begin the Begin: R.E.M.’s Early Years
Considering the influence which the group exerted on popular music – most notably in the category once known as “college rock” – it’s remarkable how much little of consequence has […]
26 Jun 2019
Book Review: Bruce Iglauer’s ‘Bitten by the Blues’
Launched in 1971, Chicago-based indie label Alligator Records would grow to become one of the most significant forces in the commercial revitalization of blues. Founded by Bruce Iglauer (who remains […]