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The second selection in the "Mockingbird (read the) Book Club" will be Walter (@waxbanks.bsky.social) Holland's Phish's A Live One. Part of Bloomsbury Publishing's fabulous 33 1/3 series, this is a 160-page retrospective twenty years after Phish's first live release,

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which followed years of the band being asked, "When are you going to release a live one?"... and, so, they did. As Bloomsbury details it, the book "places Phish and their fandom in historical and cultural context, and picks apart the mechanics of their extended group jams.

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And it examines the mystery of how a quartet of nice boys from Burlington, VT could have been, all at once, one of America's biggest touring acts and one of its best-kept secrets."

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Forum and blog discussions will start nearly four weeks from now, on September 23rd, and the Zoom Meet the Author will be Wednesday, September 30th, at 8 pm EST, 5 pm PST. Stay tuned for more details!