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Barry Goldberg, Blues-Rock Keyboardist Whose Work With Bob Dylan Included Controversial Newport ’65 Concert, Dies at 83
Barry Goldberg, a Paul Butterfield Blues Band member who backed Bog Dylan at Newport '65, and later recorded an album produced by Dylan, died at 83.
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. 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.” As a session player, Goldberg played organ on projects ranging from Ryder’s “Devil With a Blue Dress/Good Golly Miss Molly” to the Ramones’ Phil Spector-produced “End of the Century.” As a writer, he collaborated with Gram Parsons on the Flying Burritos’ “Do You Know How It Feels” and with Gerry Goffin on Gladys Knight & the Pips’ No.
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