Martin Newman

Marty Newman is a historian, designer, collector, and craftsman from Southern California with an interest in early Californian history. A chance telephone conversation with someone named Sara, who had approached a woman and inquired about a jacket she was wearing that Marty had made, led to a meeting in Malibu with the Dylans, and later to his involvement in work on the Point Dume house, his first job in design and decorative arts. The distinctive jacket worn by Dylan on the cover of his 1975 Basement Tapes album was made by Newman from an old hand-woven Mexican serape. Bob Dylan's Malibu (EDLIS Café Press, 2021) detailed Marty's relationship with Bob Dylan and the experiences they shared together. Through Marty's recollections we get a unique glimpse of Dylan's life away from music that is a very different portrait of Bob Dylan.