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Barry Goldberg, Blues Keyboardist and Part of Bob Dylan’s Newport Band, Dead at 83
Barry Goldberg, blues Keyboardist and a member of Bob Dylan's band at the Newport Folk Festival, has died at the age of 83.
With lyricist Gerry Goffin, he co-wrote Gladys Knight and the Pips’ intense 1974 hit “I’ve Got to Use My Imagination,” and that’s Goldberg’s organ on Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels’ garage anthem “Devil with a Blue Dress On/Good Golly Miss Molly,” a no. Goldberg’s keyboard-playing or songwriting was also heard on albums by the Flying Burrito Brothers (he and Gram Parsons co-wrote “Do You Know How It Feels” on TheGilded Palace of Sin), Leonard Cohen ( Death of a Ladies’ Man) the Ramones ( End of the Century), and more. “But one night I went to the end of the dial at midnight and heard this amazing [DJ] who said, ‘I’m going to take you down to the basement now — turn on a blue light and we’re gonna dig some blues.’ And it just flipped me out, all the reverb andharmonica.
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