MP3 Exclusives New Arrivals   Alt-Country Alternative Blues Electronic Jambands Jazz Metal Pop Punk R&B Rap/Hip Hop Reggae Rock   Top Downloads Features Archive Contests Control Panel MUSICBLITZ Alert!   METALBLITZ REGGAEBLITZ BLUESBLITZ Musician's Friend   Alt-Country Alternative Blues Electronic Jambands Jazz Hip Hop Metal Pop Punk R&B Reggae Rock   Getting Started Free Players	Welcome !      Bob Neuwirth A painter first and foremost, Bob Neuwirth entered into musical legend when he became Bob Dylan’s tour manager in the mid-‘60s and appeared in the classic rock flick Don’t Look Back. If that seems like a big jump, it wasn’t: Neuwirth began hanging around folk and blues musicians like Mississippi John Hurt and the Rev. Gary Davis while studying art at the Boston Museum School, and met Dylan through one of his friends, an up-and-coming singer named Joan Baez. By the end of the ‘60s, Neuwirth had begun to carve out his own musical legacy, touring with kindred spirit Kris Kristofferson, who had a similar love of country and folk -- and a comparably ragged-but-right singing voice. Neuwirth also did some co-writing with Janis Joplin (he taught her Kristofferson’s song “Me & Bobby McGee”). He would also remain famously friendly with Dylan, with whom he shared a biting, satirical sense of humor; in the early ‘70s, he helped Zimmy put together his famed Rolling Thunder Revue, a chaotic, touring collection of singers, songwriters and hangers-on. Neuwirth served as the revue’s MC, and launched a solo career around the same time with 1974’s self-titled debut on Asylum Records. The album featured a passel of high-profile talent -- everyone from Kristofferson and Don Everly to Rita Coolidge and Dusty Springfield -- and a version of “Mercedes Benz,” which he’d co-written with Joplin years before. Afterwards, Neuwirth returned to art and film work for several years. Though the ‘80s were a quiet time for him musically, alt-country and Americana-style artists like k.d. lang and Peter Case were tapping his songwriting expertise on their own records. In 1989, Neuwirth reemerged on his own with a well-received new disc on Gold Castle, Back to the Front, with backing by the Alpha Band (featuring T-Bone Burnett). That release seemed to energize Neuwirth’s musical output: in 1991, he came back with another solo disc on Capitol Records, 99 Monkeys, which featured assists from Case and Katy Moffat. He also produced albums for Burnett (1992’s Criminal Under My Hat) and Vince Bell (1994’s Phoenix), and teamed up with former Velvet Underground violist John Cale in 1994 for a duet album, Last Day on Earth, a spoken-word and music project commissioned by the Art at St. Ann's project in New York. Two years later, with Case, punk poetess Patti Smith and Elliot Murphy in tow, Neuwirth returned for another solo outing of thoughtful folk-rock, Look Up. And after a comparatively short four-year hiatus, he returned in 2000 with Havana Midnight, a new album of Latin-spiced originals built on a partnership with composer/arranger Jose Maria Vitier.     Bob Neuwirth Don Quixote MP3 Rock On "Don Quixote," a haunting new MUSICBLITZ Exclusive, folk legend and alt. country pioneer BOB NEUWIRTH takes on the BIG issues -- fate, the passage of time, and the reality at the bottom of a bottle. Bob Neuwirth Havana Midnight MP3 Rock "Havana Midnight" arrives from Cuba with love -- but folk rebel Bob Neuwirth's heart still beats red, white and blue on this rootsy piano ballad!
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