Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine

＂This 608-page magnum opus is the most comprehensive book yet published on the work of Nobel Prizewinning singer-songwriter-poet and cultural icon Bob Dylan. It features more than 1100 images by 135 photographers, artists and filmmakers, many never before. The book also includes 30 original essays focusing on unseen treasures from the Bob Dylan Archive by leading artists and writers, with an introduction by Sean Wilentz and an epilogue by Douglas Brinkley＂--

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.