Leftover Salmon: Thirty Years of Festival!

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Leftover Salmon: Thirty Years of Festival! is a book written by Tim Newby and published by Rowman & Littlefield in 2019. [1]

Contents

Overview

Leftover Salmon: Thirty Years of Festival! details the thirty-year history of Leftover Salmon and the influential role they have achieved, despite not always garnering mass recognition. The book is also a wider examination of the Progressive Bluegrass scene in Colorado that Salmon was a key part of, as well as the development of the 1990s Jam band scene and the off-shoot and evolution into jamgrass. Salmon's story is told through the personal recollections of its band members, family, friends, former band-mates, managers, and the musicians they have influenced. [2]

Thirty Years of Festival is the second book by author Tim Newby. His first was 2015's Bluegrass in Baltimore: The Hard Drivin' Sound and its Legacy. Newby is a teacher as well as serving as a writer for various music publications including Paste Magazine , Relix Magazine , Bluegrass Unlimited , and Honest Tune. [3]

The book was released in February 2019 with a special acoustic tour called the Stories From the Living Room Tour, that featured, "a stripped down version of Leftover Salmon, with a full living room set with lampshades and paintings and all that.” [4] In between songs the band told stories from their thirty years together.

In December 2019, the book was named "Best Book of 2019" by Festy GoNuts. [5]

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