Bob Neuwirth

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Akron, Ohio, USA

Robert John "Bob" Neuwirth was an American folk singer, songwriter, record producer, and visual artist. He was noted for being the road manager and associate of Bob Dylan, as well as the co-writer of Janis Joplin's hit song "Mercedes Benz".

Known for

• Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese — Self2019
• 65 Revisited — Self (archive footage)2007
• No Direction Home: Bob Dylan — Self2005
• Rolling Thunder Revue - 1975-1976 Video Anthology — Self (archive footage)2004
• Slaves to the Underground — Big Phil1997
• Valley Girls — Porter1996
• Kris Kristofferson: His Life and Work — Self1993
• Renaldo and Clara — The Masked Tortilla1978
• Bob Dylan: Hard Rain — Self1976
• Eat the Document — Self1972

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Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1939-06-20

Active to

2022-05-18

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Listeners

20,714

Total plays

86,709

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 T

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Bob

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Akron

Place of death

Santa Monica

Occupation

musician

Languages spoken

English language

Field of work

music

Genre

folk rock

Instrument

banjo

Official website

www.bobneuwirth.com

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