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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.
In addition to his roles as a music editor and critic for Village Voice Media and USA Today, Mehr is a contributor to The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Billboard, and has been a U.S. correspondent for Europe’s leading music magazine, MOJO, since 2003.
Since 2008, he has been an independent producer for Warner Music Group’s catalog division, Rhino Entertainment, conceiving, directing, and producing premier releases, boxed sets and series.
In 2017, Mehr launched the highly successful catalog campaign for Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame nominees The Replacements, with titles including the Billboard chart-topping For Sale: Live at Maxwell’s 1986, the GRAMMY-winning boxed set Dead Man’s Pop and expanded versions of the classic albums Pleased to Meet Me and Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash, and Tim.
A GRAMMY winner for “Best Album Notes” in 2021, Mehr has been an essayist for dozens of career-spanning retrospectives and projects from artists including Otis Redding, The Dixie Chicks, The Kinks, Warren Zevon, Al Green, The Staples Singers, and Big Star.
In 2023, Mehr earned his second GRAMMY for the album notes to the 20th anniversary Super Deluxe Edition of Wilco’s landmark LP, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.