Paul Metsa and Rick Shefchik will join the Twin Cities Book Festival with Charlie Parr on Saturday, October 14 at 4:00p.m. for a short music and book chat discussing their new book Blood in the Tracks: The Minnesota Musicians behind Dylan's Masterpiece.

This event is part of the Twin Cities Book Festival, which is free and open to the public. More information on the book festival can be found on Rain Taxi's website.

Blood in the Tracks tells the story of two nights in Minneapolis when six Minnesota musicians participated in a recording session with Bob Dylan as he re-recorded five songs on Blood on the Tracks, bringing their unique sound to some of Dylan’s best-known songs—only to have their names left off the album and their contribution unacknowledged for more than forty years.

"Beyond the richly detailed account of the Sound 80 sessions, Rick Shefchik and Paul Metsa have crafted a gripping pre-Internet tale of what it took (and still takes) to be a struggling musician. Dylan looms over every page, but for anyone who’s ever given themselves up to a life in music—or loved someone who did—the stories told by the Minnesota Six about gigging, practicing, recording, family life, and all the heartaches and triumphs that come along with the chase are equal parts poignant, romantic, sad, funny, and inspiring. An essential slice of Minnesota music history." —Jim Walsh, songwriter, journalist, and author of Gold Experience: Following Prince in the ’90s

"Paul Metsa and Rick Shefchik's biography of a record is like none I've ever read before. The intimate chronicling of the crafting and recording of Blood on the Tracks, from the songs' beginnings in Dylan's spiral notebooks to their shaping in New York and Minnesota, is indeed the life of Bob Dylan's masterpiece. Long may the names of the Minneapolis musicians and Sound 80 staff, some of them garnering a first official credit for their work on the record, be remembered now." —Anne Margaret Daniel, The New School

Blood In The Tracks is a significant contribution toward correcting cultural history in the music world. It is a deeply human story, transformative in the authors' abilities to take facts and information to a level of narration that equals the power of the music they are writing about. —Thunder Bay Chronicle Journal