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Bob Dylan: Mixing up the Medicine Hardcover – October 24, 2023

by Mark Davidson (Author), Parker Fishel (Author)

4.8 253 ratings

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Several years ago, a treasure trove containing some 6,000 original Bob Dylan manuscripts was revealed to exist. Their destination? Tulsa, Oklahoma.

The documents, as essential as they are intriguing—draft lyrics, notebooks, and diverse ephemera— comprise one of the most important cultural archives in the modern world. Along with countless still and moving images and thousands of hours of riveting studio and live recordings, this priceless collection now resides at The Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, just steps away from the archival home of Dylan’s early hero, Woody Guthrie.

Nearly all the materials preserved at The Bob Dylan Center are unique, previously unavailable, and, in many cases, even previously unknown. As the official publication of The Bob Dylan Center, BOB DYLAN: MIXING UP THE MEDICINE is the first wide-angle look at the Dylan archive, a book that promises to be of vast interest to both the Nobel Laureate’s many musical fans and to a broader national and international audience as well.

Edited by Mark Davidson and Parker Fishel, BOB DYLAN: MIXING UP THE MEDICINE focuses a close look at the full scope of Dylan’s working life, particularly from the dynamic perspective of his ongoing and shifting creative processes—his earliest home recordings in the mid-1950s right up through Rough and Rowdy Ways (2020), his most recent studio recording, and into the present day.

The centerpiece of BOB DYLAN: MIXING UP THE MEDICINE is a carefully curated selection of over 600 images including never-before-circulated draft lyrics, writings, photographs, drawings and other ephemera from the Dylan archive.

With an introductory essay by Sean Wilentz and epilogue by Douglas Brinkley, the book features a surprising range of distinguished writers, artists and musicians, including Joy Harjo, Greil Marcus, Michael Ondaatje, Gregory Pardlo, Amanda Petrusich, Tom Piazza, Lee Ranaldo, Alex Ross, Ed Ruscha, Lucy Sante, Greg Tate and many others. After experiencing the collection firsthand in Tulsa, each of the authors was asked to select a single item that beguiled or inspired them. The resulting essays, written specifically for this volume, shed new light on not only Dylan’s creative process, but also their own.

BOB DYLAN: MIXING UP THE MEDICINE is an unprecedented glimpse into the creative life of one of America’s most groundbreaking, influential and enduring artists.

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Mark Davidson is the Curator of the Bob Dylan Archive and the Director of Archives and Exhibitions for the Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie Centers in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He holds a PhD in musicology from the University of California, Santa Cruz, with an emphasis on folk music collecting, and an MSIS in archiving and library science from the University of Texas at Austin.
Mark has written widely on music and archives-related subjects, including his dissertation, “Recording the Nation: Folk Music and the Government in Roosevelt’s New Deal, 1936–1941,” and the essay “Blood in the Stacks: On the Nature of Archives in the Twenty-First Century,” published in The World of Bob Dylan.

Parker Fishel is an archivist and researcher who was co-curator of the inaugural exhibitions at the Bob Dylan Center. Providing archival consulting for numerous musicians and estates under the umbrella of Americana Music Productions, Fishel is also a co-founder of the improvised music archive Crossing Tones and a board member of the Hot Club Foundation. Highlights from his recording credits include Ann Arbor Blues Festival 1969 (Third Man Records), a forthcoming box set inspired by the Chelsea Hotel (Vinyl Me, Please), and several volumes of the GRAMMY Award–winning Bob Dylan’s Bootleg Series.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Callaway (October 24, 2023)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 608 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1734537795
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1734537796
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.4 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.5 x 2 x 11 inches

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Jordan Drazen

Incredible Retrospective

Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2024

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A great retrospective on Dylan's incredible career. Full of essays, photographs, and various memorabilia, this book covers all aspects of Dylan's wonderful and expansive career. While no one chapter goes into too much detail, everything is covered at least briefly, while providing great background and imagery to provide proper context and any necessary information to guiding a listener through the 40+ albums Dylan has released in his lifetime. I would 100% recommend this book to any fan of Dylan's, especially the newer ones looking for a brief overview of his entire, creative life.

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Christina Londick

Great book

Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2024

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This is an amazing tribute to Bob Dylan. This book is very big and heavy. So much content. Great pics. Got for my cousin as he us a huge Dylan fan. He loves this book. It’s a book that you pursue not sit down and read cover to cover. So much info on Dylan. Thinking of buying another for my husband

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S. E. Senter

Must have for any Dylan fan, diehard, casual or otherwise

Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2024

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You can treat this book as a biography but it's really a fantastic collection of photographs and stories. For the uninitiated there's probably a lot more songs written by Bob Dylan then you even know. Amazon offers this regularly at a pretty decent price on sale so just hold back and wait for one of the bargain days and pick it up. It's the best coffee table book you'll ever own. It's a fantastic piece of music memorabilia. When was the last time you were able to say that about any one item in your collection?

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A Reviewer

Great insights

Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2024

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Enjoyed the mountain of archival material, examples, working drafts, etc. Read cover to cover in a few days. Learned a lot about Dylan, his process, evolution, hits (and misses!). Highly recommended for any music fan

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JFK

Beautiful rendering

Reviewed in the United States on May 1, 2024

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Excellent series of essays from renowned Dylanogists and beautiful photographs and images on high quality paper. Any serious Dylan fan will love this.

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Bruce

Great Book. Very interesting. Glad I have it.

Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2024

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Great book to have and read before or after going to the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, OK. Loved every page.

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Kevin J. Roberts

Needs a slipcase or dustcover

Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2023

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For such a book, most collectors will wish to preserve the cover in very good condition. This binding will scuff and dent very easily. Within a few years, the binding and cover will be in poor condition on most copies. It should have had a proper dustcover, which owners can then place in a clear protective sleeve (as most libraries use).

Better, it should have had a slipcase. I may make one. To have a custom made slipcase, most bookbinders will charge more than this book cost new..

The ideal format would have been a larger page size and a slipcase with two volumes, each about 300+ pages. Nearly as many customers would have bought it. Maybe even more.

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P. Mitchell

A Must for Dylan Freaks

Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2024

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As a Bob-head, you already know the basics (and probably more) of his life, so that's not the reason to get this. The reason is that its goal is to display/discuss/interpret lots of the content that's in the new Dylan Archives and Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, which I visited last June. At just over 600 pages, "Mixing" is a real tome, but you can read the articles/look at the pix just a few pages at a time and still enjoy the heck out of it. Lots of unusual first-person remembrances and photos. So it's easy for me to give it the highest rating; but go to Tulsa for a visit, too; the Center is excellent! (Bonus: the Woody Guthrie Museum is right next door.)

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Sergio Lira

Gran libro ..

Reviewed in Mexico on March 11, 2024

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El maestro Dylan de nuevo nos sorprende con este compilado del pasar de sus años con tantas cosas que debe tener guardadas, pura memorabilia, excelente edición y llegó en tiempo y forma, para los amantes del gran Bob una excelente compra

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Joe Dackus

Great Bib Rylan book!!

Reviewed in Canada on November 22, 2023

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This books is waaaay better than even I expected! It’s big fat & heavy liftin too. Seems like great quality thing with pages. Lots of pages! Loving every second of it since it arrived onto my doorsteps. Even comes rapped in plastic shrinking rap! Looks awesome.
I’ll share more detail after I unrap it.
Thanks Amazone!

A. D. Crysell

Superb and still only the beginning

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 31, 2023

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If you don't know, Bob Dylan is a genius. He deserved his Nobel because he is the most literate member of the rock pantheon. He might be musically primitive. He might be politically naif, but he seems to be someone never satisfied with his own art, forever exploring the possibilities that the song form presents, including redefining his own greatest hits.

Having said that, if you want to know the Dylan story, this is not your starting point. If you have absorbed the words and music of Bob Dylan into your very being over the six decades since "Blowin' In The Wind" then this is the book for you. Expensive and weighty it might be, but it honours its subject as a true artist, revealing the workings of the man and his scraps of paper. For me, those little snippets of songs in gestation are the best parts, but the text is respectful of the man's brilliance. If you don't believe Dylan warrants this genuflection, go away now and listen to Blood On The Tracks now.

There must be a downside? Well, it is in the modern tradition of expensive books that are an event in themselves (McCartney's Lyrics springs to mind) so you might want to watch out for deals. If there is a paperback edition of this book it won't be able to reproduce the splendour of the hardback so I would strongly recommend sticking with the hardback. Any hardcore Dylan fan will not be disappointed (I know, there's always someone who will moan but I find it hard to see why).

There is an accompanying CD/LP (bought separately) that weirdly lets Dylan down.

This might be for the hardcore Dylan fan only, but also people interested in the artistic process. If we had something similar for Shakespeare or Milton it would be a treasure for generations. So, I hope, will this volume be.

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Tulsa Center

Reviewed in Italy on December 1, 2023

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Se proprio non si può andare a Tulsa

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Tejo Van den Broeck

Eén hoek van het boek is zwaar bescchadigd

Reviewed in Belgium on November 16, 2023

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Amazon stuurde me in het begin van de week een album CD's die 2x verpakt waren in zware karton. Dit zware Dylan boek zat daarentegen in een dun licht kartonnetje. Gevolg een scheur en zware beschadiging aan één hoek van de zware boek!

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