Joseph Linitz

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Joseph ("Joe") Linitz is a lyricist whose songs, co-written with former Phish bassist Mike Gordon, include the title track from Phish's Round Room and Train Song from Billy Breathes. In addition, Linitz supplied lyrics for the songs "Car Carrier Blues," "With," and "Clay" for Gordon's first album with Leo Kottke, Clone (album), as well as two songs ("Over the Dam", "Invisible") on the subsequent Gordon/Kottke album Sixty Six Steps. Linitz also cowrote Gov't Mule ballad "The Banks of the Deep End" with Gordon and Warren Haynes. Linitz holds a Ph.D. in English from Boston University.

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• Versions of pastoral in modern American fiction (Frank Norris, Willa Cather, William Faulkner, Henry Roth): (Dissertation) by Joseph M. Linitz
• The Phish Companion: A Guide to the Band and Their Music, Second Edition
• On the Banks of the Deep End - lyrics
• Leo Kottke Recordings
• Mike Gordon:Access Me
• Phish Talks 'Round Room'