Librarian Tim Smolko won the Association for Recorded Sound Collections’ 2014 award for best historical research in recorded rock music. Smolko is the author of Jethro Tull’s Thick as a Brick and A Passion Play: Inside Two Long Songs, which explores the British progressive rock band’s concept albums.
Started in 1991, the ARSC awards are presented to authors and publishers of books, articles, liner notes and monographs in recognition of outstanding published research in the field of recorded sound.