First published in 2007 by Voyageur Press, an imprint of MBI Publishing Company, 400 First Avenue North, Suite 300, Minneapolis, MN 55401 USA
Copyright © 2007, 2009, 2010 by Jim Walsh
Hardcover edition published in 2007. Softcover edition 2009. Digital edition 2010.
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Digital edition: 978-1-61673-978-2
Softcover edition: 978-0-7603-3494-2
Hardcover edition: 978-0-7603-3062-3
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Walsh, Jim, 1959–
The Replacements : all over but the shouting : an oral history / by Jim Walsh.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 978-0-7603-3062-3 (hardbound w/ jacket) 1. Replacements (Musical group) 2. Rock musicians—United States—Biography. I. Title.
ML421.R47W35 2007
782.42166092’2—dc22
2007022576
Designer: James Kegley
Title page photograph © Daniel Corrigan
Printed in the United States of America