Mixing Up The Medicine - Book Review (Pt.2)

This is part two in a series on the new Dylan Archives book ‘Mixing Up The Medicine’ by Mark Davidson and Parker Fishel. In this we look broadly at what the book is made up of, and just what kind of Bob Dylan book it is. Pt1. is here.

In May 1963, Studs Terkel asked Bob Dylan about his new song ‘A Hard Rain Is A-Gonna Fall’. The song is a cascade of imagery written at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and Dylan explained: “I wrote that - every line is another song - it could be used as a whole song - every single line.” (listen below)