Bob Neuwirth

Bob Neuwirth

Track Listings

1. Rock and Roll Time

2. Kiss Money

3. Just Because I'm Here (Don't Mean I'm Home)

4. Honky Red

5. Hero

6. Legend in My Time

7. Rock and Roll Rider

8. We Had It All

9. Country Livin'

10. Cowboys and Indians

11. Mercedes Benz

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
This country rock collection finds Bob sounding a bit like Willie Nelson on his original tunes & co writing with Roger McGuinn & Kris Kristofferson. Original artwork, liner notes, remastered from the original tapes & on CD for the first time. 2003.

Tracks:

Cape Cod Girls - Baby Gramps
Mingulay Boat Song - Richard Thompson
My Son John - John C. Reilly
Fire Down Below - Nick Cave
Turkish Revelry - Loudon Wainwright III
Bully In The Alley - The Old Prunes
The Cruel Ship's Captain - Bryan Ferry
Dead Horse - Robin Holcomb
Spansih Ladies - Bill Frisell
High Barbary - Joseph Arthur
Haul Away Joe - Mark Anthony Thompson
Dan Dan - David Thomas
Blood Red Roses - Sting
Sally Brown - Teddy Thompson
Lowlands Away - Rufus Wainwright & Kate McGarrigle
Baltimore Whores - Gavin Friday
Rolling Sea - Eliza McCarthy
Haul On The Bowline - Bob Neuwirth
Dying Sailor to His Shipmates - Bono
Bonnie Portmore - Lucinda Williams
The Mermaid - Martin Carthy & the UK Group
Shenandoah - Richard Greene & Jack Shit
The Cry Of Man - Mary Margaret O'Hara

Tracks:

Boney - Jack Shit
Good Ship Venus - Loudon Wainwright III
Long Time Ago -White Magic
Pinery Boy - Nick Cave
Lowlands Low - Bryan Ferry w/Antony
One Spring Morning - Akron/Family
Hog Eye Man - Martin Carthy & Family
The Fiddler/A Drop Of Nelson's Blood - Ricky Jay & Richard Greene
Caroline and Her Young Sailor Bold - Andrea Corr
Fathom The Bowl - John C. Reilly
Drunken Sailor - Dave Thomas
Farewell Nancy - Ed Harcourt
Hanging Johnny - Stan Ridgway
Old Man of The Sea - Baby Gramps
Greenland Whale Fisheries - Van Dyke Parks
Shallow Brown - Sting
The Grey Funnel Line - Jolie Holland
A Drop of Nelson's Blood - Jarvis Cocker
Leave Her Johnny - Lou Reed
Little Boy Billy - Ralph Steadman

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Johnny Depp and director Gore Verbinski hatched the idea for Rogue's Gallery while filming "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest"--that idea being to cast genteel rock superstars like Bono, Lou Reed, Bryan Ferry, Andre Corr, and Sting to reinterpret gritty seafaring standards for an exhaustive 43-track double-disc set produced by Hal Wilner. Throw in a bunch of credible folk stars (Loudon Wainwright III, Richard Thompson), their offspring (Rufus, Teddy) and a string of other curious characters (Jarvis Cocker, Antony) and what results is one of the strangest compilations in recent memory, if not exactly the most historically authentic or, well, digestible. Nick Cave embraces the role just a little too hard on "Fire Down Below," while Ferry can't help but sound like he's singing for the cast of "The Love Boat," but cut through the chaff and there is some real bootie here: Bono's "Dying Sailor to His Shipmates," Jolie Holland's "The Grey Funnel Line" and "Boney" by a mysterious tramp called Jack Sh**, which must be some kind of anagram for Johnny Depp. --Aidin Vaziri

Album Description

While working on the two "Pirates Of The Carribean" films, Johnny Depp and director Gore Verbinski became fascinated with the lore and fable of the pirates and sailors who ran the high seas. Enter legendary producer Hal Wilner, who brings his knack for matching maverick musicians with extraordinary material. Artists on this double disc set include Bono, Sting, Nick Cave, Bryan Ferry, Lou Reed, Richard Thompson, Lucinda Williams, Jarvis Cocker of Pulp, and many more. "Rogue's Gallery" offers a look at the hardships, the horrors, the lusts and lurid depths, and the crystal beauty that led men to the sea in ships for hundreds of years.

Customer Reviews:

Fun--but not great.......2007-07-03

What a concept--a pirate song co-produced by Verbinski and Depp inspired by the "Pirates of the Carribean" series. It should be great and in places, it is. The big question I came away with is--who is Jack Sh**? That one definitely has me guessing.

I won't belabor the song content or the production value. I think the most notable reviews have got that down pat, although I'm not marking down as far as they have because I'm giving points for originality being a fan of Spike Jones and some other truly demented people.

One thing to note: this is not a CD you'd buy if you were looking for something to amuse your kids. Some of the content is very bawdy and Mom and Dad would have some serious 'splaining to do to the little pirates. There's both some language and some situations that are more twisted than a Hangman's knot.

aaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrghhhhhhhhhhhhh!.......2007-06-09

Some of the songs are quite good(mellow)others a little odd. Its what I expected, but not what you would expect.

Disappointment would be an understatement.......2007-06-04

It is not unusual to find sea shanties performed by not the greatest musicians or singers in the world. It is not unusual to find shanties sung by people who have difficulty keeping perfect pitch, or tempo. But at least they understand what the music is about, and sing it with heart and enthusiasm and a love for the genre.

Hal Wilner should stick to whatever genre it is that made him know enough to be approached by labels, because he clearly has no understanding, and less enthusiasm for *this* genre.

If you love lively music from the maritime era, you can only be bitterly disappointed by this collection. Out of 43 tracks, I found 15 that were salvageable. Sort of.

I've already tossed this onto the pile to go to the resale shop. It wasn't worthy the cost of shipping.

Zzz..........2007-04-04

I have to admit that I have no idea what kinds of music the pirates sang aboard their ships. I know it probably wasn't "yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me," but I expected something different than this. I think my expectations have been colored by groups like The Pogues, Flogging Molly, The Tossers, and the Real McKenzies. I have an annual Pirate Party and I was hoping to find some good music here to get people in the mood for a treasure hunt or pirate liar's dice, but instead, the music on this CD is something I'd put on if the party went on too long and I wanted to encourage people to leave. Some of it is actually awful and the rest is too slow and plodding to inject much energy into any situation.

I appreciate what was attempted here (contemporary artists paying homage to sea chanteys in the spirit of our romanticized version of the pirate era) but it just doesn't really work. The effect is similar to what would be achieved if the London Philharmonic Orchestra attempted to play rap "music" with Luciano Pavarotti rhymin' while flashing gang signs.

another set of hopes are smashed.......2007-03-29

the selection of titles attracted me. The quality of the arrangements, the voices, and the music---are all quite bad.

It is VERY sad that these same titles, could not have been produced for quality. They sound like a nightmare.

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Well, if you like folk music straight from the heart...

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Manufacturer: Koch Records
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ASIN: B00000IWMU
Release Date: 1999-05-18

Tracks:

Great Spirit
Biggest Bordertown
The First Time
Good Intentions
Biding Her Time
Life Is For The Living
Dazzled By Diamonds
Ancient Questions (War & Peace)
Winter In Berlin
Cloudy Day
Busted Bottle

Customer Reviews:

Well, if you like folk music straight from the heart..........1999-07-13

Bob Neuwirth delivers this offering in a manner that allows one to understand where he's coming from in each song. Thankfully, each song has its own story and feel, yet you are able to easily recognize Bob's unique vocal quality. "Great Spirit" is an anthem for living and "Busted Bottle" is one of the most relatable, well-written songs in any catagory of music. You will enjoy all the sounds in between, like the driving, train-like rhythm of "Winter in Berlin" and the rooty-toot-toot horns of "Biggest Bordertown." This release is truly a must-have in your folk music collection.

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Mixed bag of really good things

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ASIN: B000000FEP
Release Date: 1996-04-03

Tracks:

Blue Detour
I Don't Think Of Her
What's Our Love Comin' To
Lucky Too
Beyond The Blues
Nashville
Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar
Everybody's Got A Job To Do
Heroes
Traveling Light
Sweet And Shiny Eyes
Cloudy Day
Just Like You
Beautiful Day
Save Me Jesus
(Gilbert Says Hello)

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To some, Bob Neuwirth will forever be seen as Bob Dylan's acerbic road manager/comic accomplice, an identity immortalized in D.A. Pennebaker's classic 1967 documentary Don't Look Back. In fact, Neuwirth has long been an exceptional singer-songwriter in his own, recording superior (albeit largely ignored) sets for a slew of labels, including Asylum and Gold Castle. This seat- of-his-pants 1996 set finds the weathered troubadour mixing it up on the road with an assortment of peers and apostles. Contemporaries Billy Swan, Sandy Bull, and Patti Smith turn up on songs they co-wrote with Neuwirth, while relative youngsters Victoria Williams, Mark Olsen, and Peter Case make equally obliging contributions. Conceived as "a modern-day field trip," Neuwirth laid down these tracks during stays in Texas, New York, Southern California, and Paris. The result is a varied and vital aural postcard from a man who travels like a trouper. --Steven Stolder

Customer Reviews:

Mixed bag of really good things.......1998-10-24

Recorded in kitchens, basements, living rooms and garages as he visited his friends, this album is something of a mixed bag, with very few bad bits. Were it a bag of mixed nuts, there would be lots of cashews and pecans, and surprisinly few peanuts. Generally fun to listen to.

Alternately beautiful, touching, corny and irreverant, when it works, it is amazing -- when it doesn't, at least it isn't annoying. It succeeds far more often than it fails.

Among the better tracks are: "Traveling Light", "I Don't Think Of Her", "Everybody's Got A Job To Do", and "Heroes".

Last Day on Earth
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For all you tourists out there

Just a Sketch

A collaborative masterpiece

Last Day on Earth
John Cale , and Bob Neuwirth
Manufacturer: Mca
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5 Tracks

Walking on Locusts

The Academy in Peril

ASIN: B000008DXD
Release Date: 1994-04-26

Tracks:

Overture: A Tourist/A Contact/A Prisoner
Cafhabu
Pastoral Angst
Who's in Charge?
Short of Time
Angel of Death
Paradise Nevada
Old China
Ocean Life
Instrumental
Modern World
Streets Come Alive
Secrets
Maps of the World
Broken Hearts
High and Mighty Road

Customer Reviews:

For all you tourists out there.......2007-07-23

I can't improve upon the well-written review above (the one which praises this CD), so I will be brief. Some of the melodies here can stay with me for days each time I listen to the CD. The tune "Modern World" pops into my head about twice a month, on it's own. It is beautiful tragedy, and while you don't get a top-40 voice, you get a voice with tone, tone which can express more than pitch alone. John Cale is a favorite musician for me; you can hardly go wrong with anything he's ever put out. If he's doing it with Lou Reed, Eno or Neuwirth, so much the better.

Just a Sketch.......2005-12-02

Only diehard fans of these artists would pursue this theatrical oddity. Cale's mortuary tones blend surprisingly well with Neuwirth's more amiable voice. An astute director may well be capable of giving the thing legs. However, as a suite of music, it falls well short of any achievements either artist has achieved in their respective, lengthy careers. Check Cale's,'Paris 1919', or the more recent,'Locusts' for a more approachable introduction.

A collaborative masterpiece.......2005-03-11

John Cale is my all-time favorate musician but I do recognize that a lot of his work is not easily accessible to the mainstream rock fan. This album is different however - less experimental and containing some of his most beautiful lyrics and melodies in a glorious collaboration with Bob Neuwirth, which is on a par with that other classic, Wrong Way Up, on which he worked with Brian Eno.

Presented in the form of a play, it's a cinematic work of breathtaking scope, sometimes deeply philosophical with brilliant flashes of humour. It kicks off with Overture (a) a Tourist (b) a Contact (c) A Prisoner, and then slides into the proper intro, Café Shabu, where a master of ceremonies discusses the patrons of a restaurant in a most witty and acerbic manner.

The Bob Neuwirth-sung Pastoral Angst follows, with prominent banjo, the sound of chickens and stuff and a real bluegrass delivery but very intelligent, tongue-in-cheek observations on life. Next is John Cale with Who's In Charge and Short Of Time.

Bob Neuwirth displays his beautiful voice to great effect on Angel Of Death with its lovely melody - this also has a strong folk/bluegrass feel. This is followed by John Cale on Paradise Nevada and Bob again on Old China, another melancholy song of yearning.

Then follows the ethereal Ocean Life, a type of dreamy spoken poem by a female vocalist over a heavenly melody and evocative references to "Shelley Winters in Night Of The Hunter" amidst various world-weary ruminations on the human condition. It still blows my mind.

Bob Neuwirth sings another anthemic, mournful song Modern World, followed by the faster paced Streets Come Alive and Secrets with its very catchy chorus. John Cale's Maps Of The World could easily have been a hit single with its addictive melody, in which he comments on the changing world maps in the early 90s when many countries regained their independence after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Next is a John Cale ballad Broken Hearts, and this opus magnum of an album closes with Bob Neuwirth's wistful The High And Mighty Road. Neuwirth has a unique voice and he does mostly slow, sad ballads while Cale is responsible for the faster, more "rock' tracks.

This is such an incredible mix of the somber, the humourous and the hysterically funny, that I have no doubt the staging of such a play would be a massive success. If fate has then decreed that John Cale won't achieve great commercial succes, I hope that other artists with a keen ear and a knack for choosing brilliant material might discover these wonderful songs and record them.

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Voice, Beauty, Vision -- Mas Por Favor?
playing to savor, lyrics to ponder
Soft & Warm
Hooked again
Havana Midnight

Havana Midnight
Bob Neuwirth
Manufacturer: Appleseed Records
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005CCAO
Release Date: 2001-05-22

Tracks:

Havana Midnight
The First Time
Dead Man's Clothes
Miracles/Milagros
Don Quixote
The Call
Look Up
Havana Farewell
Aracely's Natias

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Bob Neuwirth's long and fitful career is built around ragged but soulful folk-based recordings that are marked by an ingrained extemporaneous spirit. Neuwirth, after all, is a dyed-in-the-wool troubadour who's more interested in capturing the moment than artfully shaping his songs. Which makes Havana Midnight so unexpected and rewarding. Here the roughhewn folkie finds himself keeping company with Cuban composer/arranger Jose Maria Vitier, who gives Neuwirth's wistful, weary tunes a subtly ornate stateliness and rhythmic underpinning. The beauty of Havana Midnight is that Neuwirth's music is given a grace and elegance that, on the surface, ought to be constricting, but instead is entirely liberating. --Steven Stolder

Customer Reviews:

Voice, Beauty, Vision -- Mas Por Favor?.......2002-10-31

What a welcome piece of music is Havana Midnight. Bob Neuwirth's lyrics are clear and without excess. His vocals are intimate and evocative, some a little wistful. We can feel his arm around our shoulder as he tells his story. That Neuwrith's songs recline on Jose Maria Vitier's music is an unexected delight blending exoctic Latin melodies with some of this classic American artist's best work.
Never has there been a more welcome contrast to the uninvited, assualt that has become today's music. I want more.

playing to savor, lyrics to ponder.......2001-08-16

previous reviewer maureen o'connell mentions that once one acquires a taste for bob neuwirth's voice, one is hooked, but she doesn't add that it's not so hard a taste to acquire--his voice has a comfortable, lived-in quality that's not only appealing but conveys a breadth of experience which adds to your own experience of the CD. the superb backing instrumentals do carry you off to the tropics, but that voice and the sometimes poignant, sometimes funny lyrics bring you back to reality with a bracing, though perhaps slightly melancholy feeling. tops!

Soft & Warm.......2001-07-28

This CD takes you to a warm, sultry night in the tropics. You can practically hear the soft waves lap the beach. You are able to feel warm, wet tradewinds against your damp skin. You breathe deeper, an enveloping calm seeps into your blood, and you think of all the love (both past and present) in your life.

Hooked again.......2001-07-26

Here's Bob again, with his clever internal rhymes, his longings expressed in poetry, and all the artful lyrics any romantic needs to remember exactly what it felt like to love willfully and have things sometimes end sadly beautiful. "Havana Midnight" and "Havana Farewell" took me back to the Malecon, and are perfect bookend cuts to an effort that is Cuban in it's soul, if not in all it's imagery. From the accessible cultural references in Don Quixoye to the songs from the spiritual heart (and experience) of a well-traveled vagabond, Bob Neuwirth once again shows why he's cognescenti-adored while remaining fairly obscure. Acquire a taste for his voice and you're hooked.

Havana Midnight.......2000-11-02

While Bob Neuwirth's "Havana Midnight" doesn't exactly get you on your feet dancing like the title would suggest, it does evoke a melancholy that fits a man caught in time and place, perhaps even Havana. I could actually envision him lamenting events and opportunities not taken while surrounded by muscians that have "been there". The superb production and collaboration with Jose Maria Vitier keep this one in my "play often" stack. It works for me.

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Release Date: 2006-03-16

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Rock and Roll Time
Kiss Money
Just Because I'm Here (Don't Mean I'm Home)
Honky Red
Hero
Legend in My Time
Rock and Roll Rider
We Had It All
Country Livin'
Cowboys and Indians
Mercedes Benz

Album Description

This country rock collection finds Bob sounding a bit like Willie Nelson on his original tunes & co writing with Roger McGuinn & Kris Kristofferson. Original artwork, liner notes, remastered from the original tapes & on CD for the first time. 2003.

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Havana Midnight
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ASIN: B00005F3GC
Release Date: 1999-12-21

Tracks:

Havana Midnight
First Time
Dead Man's Clothes
Miracles/Milagros
Dom Quixote
Call
Look Up
Havana Farewell
Aracely's Natias

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ASIN: B000033K0I
Release Date: 2002-01-08

Tracks:

Havana Midnight
The First Time
Dead Man's Clothes
Miracles/Milagros
Don Quixote
The Call
Look Up
Havana Farewell
Aracely's Natias

Album Description

UK edition of 2000 album. A sly, understated journey that finds the veteran rock/folk/blues tunesmith pairing his weathered voice & incisive lyrics with the arrangements & melodies of Cuban composer/arranger Jose Maria Vitier. The album is a more accessible stepping stone into straight Cuban music than even Buena Vista Social Club.

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ASIN: B000008IVO
Release Date: 1991-01-15

Tracks:

Great Spirit
Biggest Bordertown
First Time
Good Intentions
Biding Her Time
Life Is for the Living
Dazzled by Diamonds
Ancient Questions (War & Peace)
Winter in Berlin
Cloudy Day
Busted Bottle

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Voice, Beauty, Vision -- Mas Por Favor?
playing to savor, lyrics to ponder
Soft & Warm
Hooked again
Havana Midnight

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ProductGroup: Music
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ASIN: B000040OIU
Release Date: 2000-07-11

Tracks:

Havana Midnight
The First Time
Dead Man's Clothes
Miracles/Milagros
Don Quixote
The Call
Look Up
Havana Farewell
Aracely's Natias

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Bob Neuwirth's long and fitful career is built around ragged but soulful folk-based recordings that are marked by an ingrained extemporaneous spirit. Neuwirth, after all, is a dyed-in-the-wool troubadour who's more interested in capturing the moment than artfully shaping his songs. Which makes Havana Midnight so unexpected and rewarding. Here the roughhewn folkie finds himself keeping company with Cuban composer-arranger Jose Maria Vitier, who lends Neuwirth's wistful, weary tunes a subtly ornate stateliness and rhythmic underpinning. The beauty of Havana Midnight is that Neuwirth's music is given a grace and elegance that on the surface ought to be constricting, but instead is entirely liberating. --Steven Stolder

Customer Reviews:

Voice, Beauty, Vision -- Mas Por Favor?.......2002-10-31

playing to savor, lyrics to ponder.......2001-08-16

Soft & Warm.......2001-07-28

Hooked again.......2001-07-26

Havana Midnight.......2000-11-02

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