Celebrating 50 years of live music with never-before-seen photographs and interviews, the commemorative book Exit/In: Fifty Years and Counting tells the story of the iconic Rock Block venue. Interviews with renowned musicians such as John Hiatt shed light on how the venue shaped their careers. “We were trying to learn how to write songs and the Exit/In was where we were trying to learn how to perform … how to connect to an audience,” Hiatt says in the book. The current iteration of Exit/In is not booking shows after Thanksgiving, with property owners AJ Capital likely to take over the space afterward. But at least we have Exit/In: Fifty Years as a document of the venue’s outsized impact on the city.
Best Local Rock History Book
