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. 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.
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