TOUCHED BY THE HAND OF BOB
A NEW BOOK, BOB DYLAN: MIXING UP THE MEDICINE,
LIFTS THE LID ON THE
ARTIST’S LABYRINTHINE TULSA ARCHIVE. RARE PICS AND EXOTIC ARTEFACTS ARE
REVEALED – PROMPTS FOR EXCITABLE COMMENTARY
FROM GREIL MARCUS, MICHAEL ONDAATJE,
LEE RANALDO AND MORE. OVER THE NEXT EIGHT
PAGES, MOJO ENJOYS AN EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW OF
ITS TREASURES. ODDS AND ENDS? AND THEN SOME!
TIME PASSES SLOWLY
Outtake from New Morning photo session, 1970.
Len Siegler’s double exposure captures Dylan in a reflective mood. Mixing Up The Medicine also includes a letter to Dylan from Archibald MacLeish, whose play was to include songs Dylan ended up using on
New Morning.
“Those songs of yours have been haunting me,” writes MacLeish.
Bob Dylan: Mixing Up The Medicine – Treasures From The Bob Dylan Center, Tulsa, OK, written and edited by Mark Davidson and Parker Fishel et al, is published by Callaway Arts & Entertainment on October 24, 608 pages, in hardcover. RRP: £80.
Len Siegler, all objects and photos courtesy of the Bob Dylan Archive, unless noted otherwise.
FOREVER YOUNG
Fifth Grade class portrait, Dylan seated right.
Mixing Up The Medicine also features shots of Dylan in his school Latin Club and Gutter Boys bowling team. Here, with his hand drum and in his psychedelic shirt, he’s obviously gearing up for a life in rock’n’roll.