Bob Neuwirth

While he won a loyal following for his own music, singer/songwriter Bob Neuwirth was perhaps best known for his work with others. As a collaborator and confidante, Neuwirth was associated with artists as gifted and diverse as Bob Dylan, John Cale, Patti Smith, T-Bone Burnett, Janis Joplin, Kris Kristofferson, and Peter Case. Neuwirth's introduction to music came while he was studying painting at the Boston Museum School at the end of the 1950s. He became part of the Boston academic environment just as the folk-blues revival was coming into its own, and Neuwirth became friend...