Bob Neuwirth is an American

United States

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 singer, songwriter

Songwriter

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, record producer

Record producer

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 and visual artist. A mainstay of the early 1960s Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge, Massachusetts

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, folk

Folk music

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 scene, he subsequently became a friend and associate of Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...

 alongside whom he appears in D.A. Pennebaker's documentary Dont Look Back

Dont Look Back

Dont Look Back is a 1967 documentary film by D.A. Pennebaker that covers Bob Dylan's 1965 concert tour in the United Kingdom.In 1998, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically...

and Dylan's own self-referential romantic fantasy/tour film Renaldo and Clara

Renaldo and Clara

Renaldo and Clara is a surrealist movie, directed by and starring Bob Dylan. Filmed in 1975, during Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue tour, it was released in 1978...

. Neuwirth assembled the backing band for Dylan's 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue

Rolling Thunder Revue

The Rolling Thunder Revue was a famed U.S. concert tour consisting of a traveling caravan of musicians, headed by Bob Dylan, that took place in late 1975 and early 1976; the prevailing theory was that the tour was named after the Native American shaman Rolling Thunder. Others maintained that tour...

. With Janis Joplin

Janis Joplin

Janis Lyn Joplin was an American singer, songwriter, painter, dancer and music arranger. She rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company and later as a solo artist with her backing groups, The Kozmic Blues Band and The Full Tilt Boogie Band...

 and poet Michael McClure

Michael McClure

Michael McClure is an American poet, playwright, songwriter, and novelist. After moving to San Francisco as a young man, he found fame as one of the five poets who read at the famous San Francisco Six Gallery reading in 1955 rendered in barely fictionalized terms in Jack Kerouac's Dharma Bums...

, he co-wrote the song "Mercedes Benz". He also introduced Kris Kristofferson

Kris Kristofferson

Kristoffer "Kris" Kristofferson is an American musician, actor, and writer. He is known for hits such as "Me and Bobby McGee", "For the Good Times", "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down", and "Help Me Make It Through the Night"...

 to Janis Joplin

Janis Joplin

Janis Lyn Joplin was an American singer, songwriter, painter, dancer and music arranger. She rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company and later as a solo artist with her backing groups, The Kozmic Blues Band and The Full Tilt Boogie Band...

.

Solo

• Bob Neuwirth (1974)
• Back to the Front (1988)
• 99 Monkeys (1990)
• Look Up (1996)
• Havana Midnight (1999)

Other contributions

• The Band of Blacky Ranchette – Still Lookin' Good to Me
  Still Lookin' Good to Me
  Still Lookin' Good to Me is a 2003 album by The Band of Blacky Ranchette. The album features contributions from John Convertino, Joey Burns, Neko Case, Richard Buckner, Cat Power, M...
  
  (Thrill Jockey, 2003)
• Por Vida: A Tribute to the Songs of Alejandro Escovedo - "Rosalie" (Independent release, 2004)

External links

• Bob Neuwirth's home page
• "for bob neuwirth", a poem by Patti Smith
  Patti Smith
  Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith is an American singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist, who became a highly influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses....
  
  
• Photos of Neuwirth in the 1960s
• Illustrated Bob Neuwirth discography