Barry Goldberg, Blues-Rock Keyboardist Whose Work With Bob Dylan Included Controversial Newport ’65 Concert, Dies at 83
variety.comChris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Barry Goldberg, a blues-rock keyboard player whose work with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band led to playing with Bob Dylan in the 1960s, including the notorious 1965 Newport Folk Festival concert dramatized in “A Complete Unknown,” died Wednesday at 83.
Bob Merlis, a representative, said that Goldberg died in hospice care after a 10-year struggle with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, with his wife of 53 years, Gail Goldberg, and son, Aram, at his bedside.
Goldberg was also a founding member of the 1960s group the Electric Flag. His association with Dylan led to an unusual point of trivia: His self-titled “Barry Goldberg” album, released in 1974, was the only album Dylan ever produced for another artist.
The arrangement ultimately went both ways, as 16 years later, Goldberg produced a recording Dylan made of the classic song “People Get Ready,” which was released on the soundtrack for the 1990 film “Flashback.” Besides Dylan and the Butterfield Blues Band, Goldberg’s credits include playing with, writing for or producing such artists as Steve Miller, the Ramones, Leonard Cohen, the Flying Burrito Brothers, Mitch Ryder, Stephen Stills, Rod Stewart, Bobby Blue Bland, Percy Sledge and Kenny Wayne Shepherd.
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