Barry Goldberg
Born on December 25, 1941, in Chicago, Illinois, Barry Goldberg was a blues and
rock keyboardist, songwriter, and producer best known as a founding member of
blues-rock band The Electric Flag. In the 1950s, he began his musical career as
a teenager in Chicago, playing alongside blues icons including Howlin’ Wolf,
Otis Rush, Muddy Waters and others. By the 1960s, he was performing with the
Paul Butterfield Blues Band and backing up Bob Dylan in 1965 during Dylan’s
controversial electric performance at the Newport Folk Festival. That same year,
guitarist Steve Miller moved to Chic...
