Barry Goldberg
(born 1941, Chicago, Illinois) is a blues and rock keyboardist, songwriter and record producer.
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Career
As a
teenager in Chicago, Goldberg sat in with
Muddy Waters,
Otis Rush, and
Howlin' Wolf. He played
keyboards in the
band supporting
Bob Dylan during his 1965 'electrified' appearance at the
Newport Folk Festival. He formed
The Electric Flag with
Mike Bloomfield in 1967, and later formed the Barry Goldberg Reunion in 1968.
Goldberg's songs (some of which co-written with
Gerry Goffin) have been
recorded by many
musicians including
Rod Stewart,
Gladys Knight,
Percy Sledge,
Joe Cocker,
Steve Miller,
Bobby "Blue" Bland,
Gram Parsons and
B. J. Thomas.
Goldberg's first professional recording session was "Devil With The Blue Dress On" / "
Good Golly Miss Molly" by
Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels. Among the
albums he contributed to are
Leonard Cohen's
Death of a Ladies' Man
,
The Ramones'
End of the Century
,
Gram Parson's
The Gilded Palace of Sin
, and
Super Session
which featured
Michael Bloomfield,
Stephen Stills, and
Al Kooper.
Goldberg also has
produced albums by
Percy Sledge including
Blue Night
(Grammy nominated and WC Handy soul album of the year) as well as
Shining Through the Rain
,
Charlie Musselwhite,
James Cotton, The Textones plus Bob Dylan's
version of
Curtis Mayfield's "
People Get Ready".
1994: Blue Night by Percy Sledge produced by Barry Goldberg & Saul Davis and featured Bobby Womack, Steve Cropper, Mick Taylor, Greg Leisz, Bob Glaub, Ed Greene, Mikael Rickfors, the Waters... and songs written by Rickfors, Gregg Sutton, Pat Robinson, Carla Olson, the Bee Gees, Quinton Claunch, Fats Domino, Ois Redding...
2004: Shining Through The Rain by Percy also co-produced by Saul & Barry and featuring Larry Byrom, Denny Freeman, Clayton Ivey, Ed Greene, Phil Upchurch, Bob Glaub, the waters, Jakob Dylan... and songs by the Bee Gees, Mikael Rickfors, Carla Olson, Jackie Lomax, Earl Carson, Bobby Moore.
In 2002, he was featured on the
Bo Diddley tribute album Hey Bo Diddley - A Tribute!
, playing
piano on the
songs "Pills", "
I'm A Man" and "Before You Accuse Me". (produced by Carla Olson.)
In 2005-6, he toured with the Chicago Blues Reunion featuring
Nick Gravenites,
Harvey Mandel, and Corky Siegel. Their debut CD reached #2 on the Billboard Blues Chart and received a four star review from Rolling Stone's David Fricke.
On July 7th, 2009 Barry's self-titled 1974 album was reissued with never before released tracks and a restored sound. The album was produced by Bob Dylan and Jerry Wexler.
Discography
Albums
- 1966 Blowing My Mind
(Epic LP; reissued on CD: Collectables and Acadia)
- 1968 There's No Hole in My Soul
(Buddah LP; reissued on CD: One Way)
- 1969 Two Jews Blues
(Buddah LP; reissued on CD: One Way)
- 1970 Street Man
(Buddah LP)
- 1972 Barry Goldberg & Friends
(Record Man LP)
- 1974 Blasts from My Past
(Buddah LP)
- 1974 Barry Goldberg
(Atco LP)
- 1976 Barry Goldberg & Friends Recording Live
(Buddah LP)
- 2002 Stoned Again
(Antone's/Texas Music Group)produced by Carla Olson and featuring Denny Freeman, Ernie Watts, Mick Taylor, Gregg Sutton...
- 2003 Live
(Unidisc)
- 2006 Chicago Blues Reunion
(Music Avenue)
Interviews
- 2008 Barry Goldberg @The Cabana Club in Hollywood, CA - Jeanie Cunningham of is the host of this six-part video series.