WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA: 30 Great Concept Albums by Bill Kopp BOOK swamp TIM HELLMAN

TIM HELLMAN

Jordie Lane returns to Australia

The third album from Paul Baribeau

founded Suarasama in 1995 after graduating from the University of Washington Ethnomusicology program

distorted guitars had been transformed into hazy

WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA: 30 Great Concept Albums by Bill Kopp BOOK swamp TIM HELLMAN242 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