An unsung blues great talks influences, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, and crossing over into jazz. Alan Paul. Sat, May 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM UTC. 4 min read.

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.

Acclaimed blues-rock musician Barry Goldberg, who was part of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band when it backed Bob Dylan during his legendary electric outing at the otherwise-acoustic Newport Folk ...

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 ...

Goldberg played live with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band (which included his friend Bloomfield) when they backed Bob Dylan at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival; by ‘going electric,’ this ...

Somehow Butterfield and Gravenites made that musical culture their own. They learned all its varieties, from the hard-edged slide guitar of Elmore James to the smooth big band sound of Bobby Blue ...

A quintessential hit of the mid-1970s kind of happened by accident. Elvin Bishop, a gutsy and eloquent guitarist formerly with ‘60s standouts Paul Butterfield Blues Band, was at Miami’s ...

The Paul Butterfield Blues Band bridged blues and rock in a new, urgent way whose importance can’t be overstated. Nick Gravenites wrote “Born in Chicago,” a future blue-rock standard, ...

Acclaimed blues-rock musician Barry Goldberg, who was part of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band when it backed Bob Dylan during ...

He has style, yes, and he has taste; what he lacks is power and conviction, maybe even soul. Whatever it is, the biggest thing keeping the band from attaining a totally fine sound is Paul’s singing.