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The Hold Steady is Craig Finn, Tad Kubler, Galen Polivka, Bobby Drake, Franz Nicolay, and Steve Selvidge. Since forming in Brooklyn in 2003, they have released nine studio albums, most recently The Price of Progress in 2023. Their debut album, The Hold Steady Almost Killed Me, was named one of the 100 best albums of this century by Rolling Stone. In 2023, Akashic published the band’s best-selling first book, The Gospel of The Hold Steady: How a Resurrection Really Feels. Their latest book is Stay Positive.
An oral history (with photographs) of the greatest American bar band of the twenty-first century
Note: This page is for the regular edition of The Gospel of the Hold Steady. To order the limited edition package, featuring the photo chapbook TJK on THS, click here.
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This LIMITED EDITION PACKAGE for The Gospel of the Hold Steady includes a copy of the book signed by the band, and the signed chapbook TJK on THS—a behind-the-scenes photo journal by Tad J. Kubler that is currently only available as part of this package.
This page is for the LIMITED EDITION PACKAGE of The Gospel of the Hold Steady with the chapbook TJK on THS. To order The Gospel of the Hold Steady without the chapbook, Click here
The Hold Steady’s beloved song of stick-to-itiveness and positivity is adapted into a beautiful children’s book about the social life of a humble armadillo.
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This Limited Edition package has sold out. Signed and unsigned copies of the book are available here