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Bob Neuwirth, Revisited: T Bone Burnett and Paula Batson on Giving the Legendary Songwriter His Due With a Transformed Version of His Debut Album
Songwriter Bob Neuwirth's 1974 debut has gotten a transformative remix to make it the record it should have been, as discussed by T Bone Burnett.
A partial credits list includes Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolige, the then-married couple who Neuwirth had just opened a tour for, plus Don Everly, Dusty Springfield, Cass Elliot, Roger McGuinn, Chris Hillman, Richie Furay, Jeff “Skunk” Baxter, Booker T. Jones, Geoff Muldaur and Timothy B. And we’d like you to come up and meet them.’ So they sent me a ticket and I went up” to Woodstock, where Burnett fell in with others who’d arrived at the scene, including Stephen Bruton, Bobby Charles, guitarist Amos Garrett, Rick Danko, possibly Todd Rundgren, and of course his future partner in musical crime. Looking back on Neuwirth’s brief fling with the major-label machinery that was his debut album, Burnett says, Tthat was a time in Hollywood in the early ‘70s when the Eagles became huge mass-culture stars, and I think Linda Ronstadt sort of led the way from the folk music to the mass culture.
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