Barry Goldberg
Barry Goldberg ( born January 1, 1941 in Chicago, Illinois ) is considered one of the most distinguished keyboard players of the U.S. blues scene since the late 1950s.
Biography
During his school years played Goldberg piano in various bands and clubs of Chicago's North Side. One of his friends was the guitarist Mike Bloomfield, finally converted him to the Blues. Goldberg played with blues legends such as Howlin 'Wolf and Muddy Waters, but also with young blues fans like Steve Miller, Charlie Musselwhite, Harvey Mandel, Nick Gravenites, Robbie Robertson, Mitch Ryder, Jimi Hendrix and Paul Butterfield.
1965 accompanied Goldberg Bob Dylan when he replaced at the Newport Folk Festival by the acoustic electric guitar and picked up the folk-rock from the baptism. In 1966 an album of Barry Goldberg Blues Band.
Goldberg was a member of Mike Bloomfield's band Electric Flag, which at the Monterey Pop Festival had its first appearance in 1967. In the same year Goldberg Al Kooper and Mike Bloomfield accompanied on the album Super Session. 1969 played Goldberg and Bloomfield the acclaimed album Two Jews Blues one.
In the 1970s, Goldberg was one of the namesake of the KGB project. In the following years he wrote again and again music for film and television productions. Occasionally, he has performed with his own band or accompanied fellow musicians at their performances.
Under the band name The Rides 2013 he played with Stephen Stills and Kenny Wayne Shepherd an album Can not Get Enough.