Where to begin in assessing the multi-faceted life and career of Bob Neuwirth, the singer, songwriter, visual artist, mentor, creative catalyst, restless collaborator and provocateur who died May 1…
Bob Neuwirth arrived with the birth of the cool, at the end of the Bebop/Beat/Abstract Expressionist transformation of American culture.
Neuwirth was always there, playing his fractured version of the genius many of us would come to recognize. He was equally at home with kings and paupers. In the early days, he and the famous Bob were considered word assassins, but Neuwirth traded that angle of inclination to healing humanity through words and deeds.
When we pulled up in the tour bus, Charles’ girlfriend, Judy Hill, was already hard at work in the kitchen, turning out a seemingly endless supply of crawfish étoufée and boudin blanc. Bobby’s aide-de-camp was a scary, snaggle-toothed character named “Bird.” By way of introduction, Bird would pull out his tactical hunting knife and explain in a thick accent how he could disembowel you and place your intestines in your hands before you would even feel it.
From the day I walked into a toilet-of-a-dressing-room at the Other End, an 18-year-old with a fiddle case under my arm, until his death, Bob was the single person who made the most impact on my life. I expect that to continue to be true. I’m pretty sure I accompanied Bob at his first sober club gig, in Greenwich Village, sometime in the early ‘80s. He was panicked, having to face a crowd for the first time with no buffer, worried, above all, that he had lost his sense of humor.
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