Bob Neuwirth singing The Call (Havana Midnight) 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 DA 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. He also introduced Kris Kristofferson to Janis Joplin. Joplin and Kristofferson were lovers for a short time and she recorded a legendary version of Kristofferson's iconic single "Me And Bobby McGee".
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