Interview with Anne Margaret Daniel on Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine

Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine is a new book by Mark Davidson and Parker Fishel, which marks the first official publication by the Bob Dylan Center. Located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the Center serves as the public face for the Bob Dylan Archive, which houses a lifetime’s worth of Dylan’s lyric drafts, notebooks, photographs, videos,Continue reading “Interview with Anne Margaret Daniel on Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine”

Simple Twist of Fate

The incomparable Ralph Ellison published an article for Esquire in 1959 called “The Golden Age, Time Past.” Eulogizing Minton’s Playhouse, the small performance space from which bebop would emerge and change music history forever, this was a major piece by Ellison, capturing a significant moment in African American culture. Ellison started the piece with linesContinue reading “Simple Twist of Fate”