Bob Neuwirth

Biography

Bob Neuwirth (born Robert Neuwirth on 20 June 1939; died 18 May 2022) was an American folk music singer, songwriter, record producer, and visual artist. A mainstay of the early 1960s Cambridge, Massachusetts, folk scene, he subsequently became a friend and associate of Bob Dylan alongside whom he appears in D.A. Pennebaker's documentary Dont Look Back and Dylan's own self-referential romantic fantasy cum tour film Renaldo and Clara. (Neuwirth assembled the backing band for Dylan's 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue.) With Janis Joplin and poet Michael McClure, he co-wrote the song Mercedes Benz.

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