Bill Kopp

Depending on one's interest, one is either amazed and entertained or bored to tears with Bill Kopp's encyclopedic knowledge of the popular music of the last fifty years. A rock/pop music historian, he has amassed a collection of way more than 6,000+ albums, nearly half of those on vinyl.

Bill has written for the now-defunct Skope (where he ran things as Editor-in-Chief for two years), Billboard, No Depression, Trouser Press, Ugly Things, WNC Magazine, Mountain Xpress, Bass Guitar, Goldmine, Record Collector, Stomp and Stammer and Jambase.org, among others. His work appears almost every week in more than a half-dozen altweeklies across the US.

With a background in marketing and advertising, Bill Kopp got his professional start writing for Trouser Press. He rose through the ranks at Skope Magazine, eventually becoming Editor-in-chief. When that magazine ceased publication, readers and associates encouraged Bill to start a blog. Musoscribe launched in 2009, and has published new content every business day since then. The interviews, essays, and reviews on Musoscribe reflect Bill's keen interest in American musical forms, most notably rock, jazz, and soul. His work features a special emphasis on reissues and vinyl. Bill's work also appears in many other outlets both online and in print. He also researches and authors liner notes for album reissues (nearly 20 so far), and co-produced a reissue of jazz legend Julian "Cannonball" Adderley's final album.

Bill has interviewed and written features on more than 300 music artists. You've heard of most of them.

He's currently working on a couple of book proposals (music-related, of course). He lives in a nearly century-old house in Asheville, NC with his wife, two cats, a vintage motorcycle and way, way, way too many synthesizers.

And, like everyone else, he's everywhere:

• Blog: http://blog.musoscribe.com
• Archives: http://musoscribe.com
• Twitter: http://twitter.com/the_musoscribe
• Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/billkopp.official <-- and he's friendly enough; "friend" him and see!
• Twice-monthly "30 Days Out" blog for Mountain Xpress