1. Barry Joseph Goldberg was an American blues and rock keyboardist, songwriter, and record producer.
15 Facts About Barry Goldberg
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Barry Goldberg played keyboards with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band backing Bob Dylan during his 1965 newly 'electrified' appearance at the Newport Folk Festival.
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Barry Goldberg formed The Electric Flag with Mike Bloomfield in 1967, and formed the Barry Goldberg Reunion in 1968.
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In 1965, after moving to Chicago to play the blues, Steve Miller and Barry Goldberg founded the Barry Goldberg-Miller Blues Band, along with bassist Roy Ruby, rhythm guitarist Craymore Stevens, and drummer Maurice McKinley.
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Barry Goldberg's self-titled album was released in 1974, and was produced by Bob Dylan and Jerry Wexler.
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Barry Goldberg wrote the song with Jill Wisoff and Joel Diamond.
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Carla produced Barry Goldberg's Stoned Again album, which featured Denny Freeman, Mick Taylor and Ernie Watts.
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In 2004, Shining Through The Rain by Percy Sledge was co-produced by Davis and Barry Goldberg, featuring Larry Byrom, Denny Freeman, Clayton Ivey, Ed Greene, Phil Upchurch, Bob Glaub, the Waters, and Jakob Dylan, and songs by the Bee Gees, Mikael Rickfors, Carla Olson, Jackie Lomax, Earl Carson, Bobby Moore.
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In 2012, Stephen Stills recruited Barry Goldberg in founding a new band dubbed the Rides, culling some of Stills's best work from the past, adding guitarist Kenny Wayne Shepherd and session drummer Chris Layton.
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Barry Goldberg co-wrote four songs on their first album, titled Can't Get Enough, released that year.
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Barry Goldberg appears on the Carla Olson album Have Harmony, Will Travel playing Hammond B3 organ on Del Shannon's "Keep Searchin" sung by Carla and Peter Case, and piano and organ on the Little Steven song "All I Needed Was You", sung by Scott Kempner.
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Barry Goldberg had been working on this project for a few years.
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Barry Goldberg produced three tracks on the 2013 EP by The Voice Season One semi-finalist Nakia with longtime friend Johnny Lee Schell.
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Barry Goldberg was a nephew of Arthur Barry Goldberg, a prominent Chicago-based labor attorney who served as the United States Secretary of Labor and as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States before returning to the Cabinet of the United States as United States Ambassador to the United Nations.
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Barry Goldberg died in Los Angeles, California due to complications from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma on January 22,2025, at the age of 83.