Former Bob Dylan Keyboardist Barry Goldberg Dead at 83 After Cancer Battle

Barry Goldberg, a famend keyboardist who carried out with Bob Dylan, has died … the musician’s rep has confirmed.

The blues-rock performer died surrounded by his family members — together with spouse Gail and son Aram — in hospice care … 10 years after he was recognized with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a kind of blood most cancers.

Goldberg was a notable a part of the ’60s American music scene as a member of The Paul Butterfield Blues Band … famously supporting Dylan on the keyboard when the people legend debuted his new electrical sound on the 1965 Newport Folks Pageant.

The efficiency — which was controversial on the time — was recreated within the 2024 biopic about Dylan’s life, “A Complete Unknown,” and noticed actor Justin Levine painting Goldberg.

Dylan was famously booed for swapping his acoustic guitar for an electrical one … and for performing with an electrical band, which included Goldberg. Regardless of the criticism, Dylan and his band carried out “Like A Rolling Stone” for the primary time stay … and is now thought-about one of many biggest songs of all time.

Goldberg was additionally recognized for being a document producer, having labored on albums for Percy Sledge, Charlie Musselwhite, James Cotton, and The Textones. He additionally produced Dylan’s tackle “People Get Ready,” which was first written by Curtis Mayfield for his group The Impressions.

He was 83.