Bob Mehr
Bob Mehr is the author of The New York Times bestseller Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements. An NPR, Amazon, and Rolling Stone book of the year, it earned the ASCAP Foundation’s “Timothy White Award” for Outstanding Biography and was named one of Billboard’s “100 Greatest Music Books of All Time.”
Mehr is a regular contributor to The New York Times, where he writes about arts, culture, and the entertainment industry. He’s also been a U.S. correspondent for Europe’s leading music magazine, MOJO, since 2003.
A GRAMMY winner for “Best Album Notes” in 2021 for his work on The Replacements’ “Dead Man’s Pop,” Mehr has been a producer and essayist for dozens of career-spanning retrospectives and boxed sets for artists including Otis Redding, The Dixie Chicks, The Kinks, Warren Zevon, Al Green, The Staples Singers, and Green Day. In 2023, Mehr earned his second GRAMMY award for the notes to the 20th anniversary edition of Wilco’s landmark LP, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.
Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements
