Bob Neuwirth
Birth name	Robert Neuwirth
Born	June 20, 1939(1939-06-20)
Origin	Akron, Ohio, USA
Notable instrument(s)
Guitar

Bob Neuwirth is an American 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/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". Is also believed to be the inspiration for the Janis Joplin song "Me & Bobby McGee" written by Kris Kristofferson.^{citation needed}

Discography

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

with John Cale

• Last Day on Earth (1994)

External links

• Bob Neuwirth's home page
• "for bob neuwirth", a poem by Patti Smith
• Photos of Neuwirth in the 1960s
• Illustrated Bob Neuwirth discography

References

Song "Lucky Too" was featured in the CSI season 5 finale episode titled "Grave Danger" directed by Quentin Tarantino.

• Baby, Let Me Follow You Down: The Illustrated Story of the Cambridge Folk Years, by Eric von Schmidt and Jim Rooney ISBN 0-385-14456-3

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