and a primer on American music.” - The Christian Science Monitor The book is at once a time-hopping biography a catalog of Dylan’s myriad, eclectic influences. “Author Sean Wilentz combines a lifelong music fan’s enthusiasm with a history detective’s doggedness to unearth Dylan’s entire root system. Here is scholarship that successfully slips the bonds of specialty and pretension.” - Los Angeles Times in the lucidity of its prose, the rigor of its research and convincing originality of the place he assigns his subject in the context of American cultural history. Michael Schaub, a journalist and regular contributor to NPR, lives near Austin, Texas."Wilentz’s book stands apart. Historian Sean Wilentz wrote the introduction for the book, and author Douglas Brinkley penned the epilogue.īob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine is scheduled for publication on Oct. Those writers and artists include Peter Carey, Joy Harjo, Richard Hell, Greil Marcus, Gregory Pardlo, and Lee Ranaldo. The publisher calls Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine “a richly illustrated book that is the first panoramic look at the Bob Dylan Archive, featuring nearly 1,000 images, most of which have never been seen before by the public, along with original essays from leading writers and artists.” The book, written and edited by Mark Davidson and Parker Fishel, is a collaboration with the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, which is home to Dylan’s archive. The book’s title comes from a line in Dylan’s 1965 song “Subterranean Homesick Blues.”
Fans of Bob Dylan will get the chance to look inside the legendary singer-songwriter’s archive in a new book coming later this year.Ĭallaway Arts & Entertainment announced in a news release that it will publish Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine, which it describes as “the most comprehensive book yet” on the work of the musician and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature.
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