Barry Goldberg - Chicago To L.A. (Remastered)

Size: 379 MB
Time: 66:34
File: Flac
Released: 2025
Styles: Blues, hammond
Art: Front

1. Guess I Had Enough of You (Remastered) ( 3:10)
2. The Might Mezz (Remastered) ( 3:20)
3. Westside Girl (Remastered) ( 4:22)
4. In The Groove (Remastered) ( 3:12)
5. Mighty Low (Remastered) ( 3:47)
6. Dumplin's (Remastered) ( 3:29)
7. Ghosts In My Basement (Remastered) ( 3:50)
8. Bullwhip Rock (Remastered) ( 2:13)
9. Lazy (Remastered) ( 2:34)
10. Tall Cool One (Remastered) ( 2:54)
11. Slow Walk (Remastered) ( 2:44)
12. Alberta (Remastered) ( 1:45)
13. Winter (Remastered) (12:00)
14. After You're Gone (Empty Blues) (Remastered) ( 6:23)
15. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (Remastered) ( 5:20)
16. Dream On (Remastered) ( 5:24)

Barry Goldberg was an American keyboardist, songwriter, and record producer. He was born on December 25, 1941, in Chicago, Illinois. Goldberg co-founded The Electric Flag with Mike Bloomfield. He played with Bob Dylan, Mick Taylor, Carla Olson, and Les McCann, among others, and can be heard on albums by The Ramones (End of the Century), Leonard Cohen, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Michael Bloomfield's album "Supersession," Stephen Stills, and Al Kooper, The Rolling Stones, Muddy Waters, and Jr. Wells, among others. Goldberg wrote songs for Rod Stewart, Tom Jones, Gladys Knight, Bobby Bland, Joe Cocker, Gram Parsons, Steve Miller, and Jacky Wilson. He produced albums by Percy Sledge, Charlie Musselwhite, James Cotton, and The Textones. His first solo album, "Street Man," was released in 1969. Barry Goldberg died on January 22, 2025, at the age of 83. The album "Chicago To L.A." was released in mid-November 2025. Twelve (remastered) tracks from this album were previously released in 2018 on Goldberg's album "In 'The Groove." The opening track, "Guess I Had Enough of You," is groovy R&B with a funky Hammond, Rob Stone on Jew's harp, and vocals by Les McCain. The jazzy "The Mighty Mezz" is driven by the organ, and the soulful "Westside Girl" features horns and vibraphone. Goldberg then solos brilliantly on "In The Groove," stealing the show again alongside Denny Freeman's jazzy guitar licks on the slow shuffle "Mighty Low." "Dumplin's" is beautiful R&B with organ and saxophone. The steamy slow blues "Ghosts In The Basement" features a delightful organ solo and wailing Jew's harp by Rob Stone. Bullwhip Rock is old-school rock 'n' roll with an exciting boogie-woogie piano. Lazy takes us back to the guitar bands of the '60s with twangy guitar work, organ, and a ripping sax. Saxophone solos and a festive hammering piano take center stage in "Tall Cool One," followed by New Orleans influences in the shuffle "Slow Walk." Goldberg's piano playing then swings wildly in the Huddie Ledbetter classic "Alberta." The final four (remastered) songs weren't on the original album "From Chicago To L.A." The Jagger/Richards composition "Winter" is stunning. A ballad over twelve minutes long, it features vocals by Carla Olson and lyrical guitar work by Mick Taylor. Goldberg contributes on Hammond and Wurlitzer. The song is from Carla Olson and Mick Taylor's 2008 album "The Ring Of Truth." That album also includes the brilliant instrumental blues "After You're Gone (Empty Blues)," featuring Mick Taylor's fantastic guitar work. The penultimate track, the Rolling Stones classic "Satisfaction" (I Can't Get No), is presented here in a unique, swinging piano version with a rippling saxophone. The closing track is the beautiful "Dream On," featuring Goldberg's Hammond and fine guitar work by Denny Freeman.

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Barry Goldberg & Friends - Barry Goldberg & Friends

Album: Barry Goldberg & Friends
Size: 146,6 MB
Time: 63:01
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1991
Styles: Blues/Rock
Art: Full

1. That's Allright Mama (2:47)
2. Maxwell Street Shuffle (2:28)
3. Hole In My Pocket (2:52)
4. It Hurts Me Too (4:15)
5. You're Still My Baby (3:21)
6. On The Road Again (1:59)
7. Sittin' In The Circles (3:43)
8. Capricorn Blues (1:56)
9. A Lighter Blue (2:41)
10. Twice A Man (4:30)
11. Fool On A Hill (3:21)
12. Sugar Coated Love (2:38)
13. Strung And Young (3:18)
14. The Answers In Your Head (3:27)
15. I Think I'm Gonna Cry (3:22)
16. Jimi The Fox (2:30)
17. Another Day (3:29)
18. Blues For Barry And... (Dedicated To Big John's) (10:14)

Barry Goldberg was a regular fixture in the white blues firmament of the mid-'60s that seemed to stretch from Chicago to New York. A keyboardist (organ seemed to be his specialty), Barry was an in-demand session man - he appears with Michael Bloomfield on a Mitch Ryder album, for instance - along with Al Kooper and his blues-playing contemporary from the original Butterfield band, Mark Naftalin. Goldberg was a member of Charlie Musselwhite's first band, contributing great piano and organ lines to the Stand Back! album (his work on "Cristo Redentor" is moody and introspective, with a strong jazz-inflected feel, while still retaining strong blues roots) and a handful of others throughout the decade. /Biography by Cub Koda, AllMusic

Tracks 1,2,5 to 7,9 to 11,16,18 from "Barry Goldberg - Two Jews Blues"
Tracks 3,4,8,12 to 15,17 from "Barry Goldberg Reunion - There's No Hole In My Soul"

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The Barry Goldberg Blues Band - 1965-66 (Blowing My Mind Plus)

Album: 1965-66 (Blowing My Mind Plus)
Size: 80,2 MB
Time: 34:29
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2003
Styles: Electric blues, harmonica blues
Art: Full

1. The Mother Song (2:57)
2. More Soul, Than Soulful (3:12)
3. Gettin' It Down (2:10)
4. Mean Old World (3:51)
5. Twice A Man (2:30)
6. Whole Lotta' Lovin' Goin' On (2:38)
7. Big Boss Man (2:59)
8. Blowing My Mind (2:57)
9. That'll Be The Day (2:23)
10. Can't Stand To See You Go (2:26)
11. Put Me Down (1:55)
12. Think (2:38)
13. Ginger Man (1:48)

This is the first long-player from '60s blues keyboardist Barry Goldberg (organ/piano/vocals). His early association as Bob Dylan's organist during Dylan's electric debut at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival garnered Goldberg ample exposure. Within a few months he had teamed up with Steve Miller to create the Goldberg-Miller Blues Band. Although the combo were signed by Epic Records and cut a pair of 45s, Miller headed for the flourishing San Francisco psychedelic music scene and left Goldberg and the remnants of the short-lived Goldberg-Miller union to their own devices.

In addition to the 10 tracks on the album Blowing My Mind (1966), the Goldberg-Miller Blues Band also recorded "The Mother Song," and "More Soul, Than Soulful," which appear on the 2003 release Goldberg-Miller Blues Band 1965-66. Goldberg is then joined by the likes of Roy Ruby (bass), who contributed to some early Michael Bloomfield recordings, and Maurice McKinley (drums), whose musical rap sheet included a previous stint with Rahsaan Roland Kirk. The combo also featured the respective talents of Harvey Mandel (guitar) and Charlie Musselwhite (harmonica). One of the most evident factors in the success of the Barry Goldberg Blues Band is the impeccable ensemble work as they propel through a blend of effective originals as well as an atypical combination of cover material.

The title track is a mid-tempo Goldberg/Ruby tune that features a slightly edgy feel, reminiscent of Dylan's "Positively Fourth Street." "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" and "That'll Be The Day," are both recommended reworkings that perhaps best exemplify the bluesy synthesis that defined the Barry Goldberg Blues Band, at least on this initial effort. Rather than attempting a note-for-note recreation, they fuse their own blend of electric blues into the well-known and already established melodies. The same holds for the cover versions of Jimmy Reed's "Can't Stand To See You Go" and Jimmy McCracklin's seminal side "Think." One non-LP outtake is also included, a strong rendering of Geoff Muldaur's "Ginger Man." /Lindsay Planer, AllMusic

Tracks 1-2: The Goldberg-Miller Blues Band
Tracks 3-13: The Barry Goldberg Blues Band

(For personnel details, see artwork included)

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Barry Goldberg - It's All My Vault

Year: 2011
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 48:55
Size: 112,9 MB
Styles: Blues
Scans: Front, inside, tray

1. After You've Gone (Empty Blues) (4:55)
2. Holy High (4:43)
3. Special Sauce (4:01)
4. Never Too Late (3:35)
5. Slip And Slide (3:31)
6. Blue Dreams (4:24)
7. Rollin' On (3:12)
8. Goodbye So Long (3:17)
9. Rock It (3:52)
10. Goin' To Chicago (Live) (3:52)
11. Crazy 'Bout You Baby (Live) (4:50)
12. You Gotta Move (Live) (4:36)

Barry Goldberg was a founding member of the band The Electric Flag with Nick Gravenites and Michael Bloomfield. You’ve heard his keyboard skills many times on the classic album, ‘Super Session’ with Al Kooper, Stephen Stills and Michael Bloomfield. He has produced many artists including Bob Dylan and has written many hit songs for artists like Joe Cocker, Rod Stewart, Gram Parsons, Steve Miller and Gladys Knight (#1 hit song – “I’ve Got To Use My Imagination”). He even played on the Mitch Ryder tune – “Devil With The Blue Dress.” Now, much to the elation of Barry Goldberg fans worldwide, ItsAboutMusic has released a new CD of rarities titled ‘It’s All My Vault’, featuring performances by Mick Taylor, Carla Olsen and Terry Reid.

As for this album, the story is that Barry took a look around and found that he had all of these tunes just laying around in his “vault” so he turned them over to ItsAboutMusic so that all of his fans could now enjoy them. The label hopes it’s only volume one of this series and that he has many more tracks collecting dust that they can release in the future.

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Barry Goldberg - In The Groove

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 37:48
Size: 86.6 MB
Styles: Soil, R&B, Funk
Year: 2018
Art: Front

[3:06] 1. Guess I Had Enough Of You
[3:18] 2. Mighty Mezz
[4:20] 3. Westside Girl
[3:45] 4. In The Groove
[3:48] 5. Mighty Low
[3:29] 6. Dumplin's
[2:11] 7. Bullwhip Rock
[2:35] 8. Lazy
[2:54] 9. Tall Cool One
[2:41] 10. Slow Walk
[3:51] 11. Ghosts In My Basement
[1:45] 12. Alberta

Barry Goldberg has a hell of a credit score. And he never leaves home without it. A professional keyboard player since his teenage years in Chicago, he's racked up points and enjoyed numerous rewards as a blues acolyte accompanying greats like Howlin Wolf and Muddy Waters; helping Bob Dylan shake rock & roll history at Newport in 1965; organizing Mitch Ryder's torrid Devil with a Blue Dress On; co-founding the genre-busting Electric Flag, and composing best-selling songs for Jackie Wilson, Tom Jones, Rod Stewart and others. For the last five years he's performed as one third of the Rides, with Stephen Stills and Kenny Wayne Shepherd, touring widely and topping Billboard's blues chart with the albums Can't Get Enough and Pierced Arrow. With In the Groove he has realized his long-held ambition. The album finds Goldberg cooking on B-3 and piano on a compelling mix of new, first-rate originals and revisited instrumental classics from the late Fifties and early Sixties.

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Barry Goldberg & Harvey Mandel - Nothin' But The Blues

Size: 101,6 MB
Time: 40:46
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1995/2016
Styles: Chicago Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Front

01. Big Boss Man (Live) ( 5:12)
02. Low Down Funk (Live) ( 5:14)
03. Lost Love (Live) ( 4:25)
04. I'm Losing You (Live) ( 3:06)
05. You Got Me Cryin' (Live) ( 3:30)
06. Hootchie Kootchie Man (Live) ( 3:31)
07. Cherry Jam (Live) (15:46)

Barry Goldberg was a regular fixture in the white blues firmament of the mid-'60s that seemed to stretch from Chicago to New York. A keyboardist (organ seemed to be his specialty), Barry was an in-demand session man -- he appears with Michael Bloomfield on a Mitch Ryder album, for instance -- along with Al Kooper and his blues-playing contemporary from the original Butterfield band, Mark Naftalin. Goldberg was a member of Charlie Musselwhite's first band, contributing great piano and organ lines to the Stand Back! album (his work on "Cristo Redentor" is moody and introspective, with a strong jazz-inflected feel, while still retaining strong blues roots) and a handful of others throughout the decade. ~Cub Koda

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Barry Goldberg - Blasts From My Past (Extended Edition)

Size: 167,6 MB
Time: 72:00
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1971/2014
Styles: Blues Rock, Chicago Blues
Art: Front

01. Jimi The Fox ( 2:26)
02. It Hurts Me Too ( 4:11)
03. Sugar Coated Love ( 2:34)
04. Maxwell Street Shuffle ( 2:24)
05. Blues For Barry And Michael (10:15)
06. You're Still My Baby ( 3:18)
07. Another Day ( 3:26)
08. I Think I'm Gonna Cry ( 3:19)
09. Sittin' In The Circles ( 3:39)
10. A Lighter Blue ( 2:36)
11. Hole In My Pocket ( 2:48)
12. The Mother Song ( 2:56)
13. Gettin' It Down ( 2:07)
14. Mean Old World ( 3:49)
15. Blowing My Mind ( 2:55)
16. Strung And Young ( 3:14)
17. Tea For Two ( 3:23)
18. I've Got To Use My Imagination ( 3:47)
19. Slip And Slide ( 3:29)
20. Low Down Funk ( 5:12)

The title of this album hints at a retrospective collection, or a rummage sale of outtakes garnered from here and there. The presence of three different studio locations provides further evidence that this is something of a quilt assembly, and it is a musical sewing job in which the seams sometimes seem to have worn thin. Fans of blues and rock will find sections of agreeable groove; in fact, there are listeners who will even find the opening track entitled "Jimi the Fox" to be an absolute charmer, although to others it might seem to be the musical equivalent of a black velvet painting. Tracks such as the Lazy Lester cover "Sugar Coated Love" are superb, glowing with an extremely warm and vibrant band sound and further lit up with the almost fluorescent sound of Barry Goldberg's organ. As usual with this artist's albums, liner credits are something of a mess. Goldberg fans are used to their idol Michael Bloomfield showing up uncredited or under another name due to contract restrictions -- here he is just plain "Michael." Yet no drummer is credited at all for any of the sessions, and there is no information about which guitarists play on which track. The drum seat could conceivably be held by "Fast" Eddie Hoh, who worked on most of Goldberg's albums, but with recording sessions spread across both coasts and Muscle Shoals, AL, too, it is a good guess that more than one drummer is involved. Whoever is in the band on "It Hurts Me Too" provides a textbook example of lousy blues playing -- two slide guitarists and the harmonica blower Charlie Musselwhite step all over each other throughout a performance that is painful to listen to, and not because of its deep emotional content. ~Review by Eugene Chadbourne

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Barry Goldberg - Blues From Chicago

Year: 1973/1996
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 50:23
Size: 115,3 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Scans: Full

1. Sweet Home Chicago (4:19)
2. Big Boss Man (5:12)
3. Low Down Funk (5:14)
4. I'm Losing You (3:08)
5. Lost Love (4:25)
6. Hoochie Coochie Man (3:30)
7. You Got Me Cryin' (3:30)
8. I Got To Love My Woman (12:26)
9. Mess Ada Blues (8:35)

Barry Goldberg was a regular fixture in the white blues firmament of the mid-'60s that seemed to stretch from Chicago to New York. A keyboardist (organ seemed to be his specialty), Barry was an in-demand session man - he appears with Michael Bloomfield on a Mitch Ryder album, for instance - along with Al Kooper and his blues-playing contemporary from the original Butterfield band, Mark Naftalin. Goldberg was a member of Charlie Musselwhite's first band, contributing great piano and organ lines to the Stand Back! album (his work on "Cristo Redentor" is moody and introspective, with a strong jazz-inflected feel, while still retaining strong blues roots) and a handful of others throughout the decade. /Cub Koda, Allmusic

Artists participating on these recordings (recorded 1964-1971):
Barry Goldberg - organ
Mike Bloomfield - guitar, vocals
Eddie Hoh - drums
Harvey Mandel - guitar
Roy Ruby - bass
Charlie Musselwhite - harmonica
Bobby Jones - vocals
Cliff Davis - saxophone
Maurice McKinley - drums

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Barry Goldberg - Stoned Again

Size: 104,4 MB
Time: 45:18
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2002
Styles: Modern Electric Blues, Instrumental Blues
Art: Front

01. Stoned (2:39)
02. Tumbling Dice (3:49)
03. Jumping Jack Flash (4:08)
04. Ventilator Blues (3:54)
05. Heart Of Stone (3:33)
06. Parachute Woman (4:07)
07. Let It Bleed (3:29)
08. Think I'm Goin' Mad (4:43)
09. Good Times, Bad Times (3:08)
10. Melody (5:10)
11. As Tears Go By (2:32)
12. Some Girls (3:29)
13. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (0:30)

A truly brilliant and original concept for a tribute album, Stoned Again can be classified as many things: a Barry Goldberg solo record (his first in 20 years), a Rolling Stones tribute, as well as a sort of modern-day Super Session album. Goldberg, a veteran keyboardist and songwriter who was one of the founding members of the Electric Flag, has also played on hundreds of sessions for artists ranging from Bob Dylan to the Flying Burrito Brothers. Aside from showing off his imposing keyboard skills, Stoned Again is a vital example of his ability as a tasteful and inventive arranger. A good illustration of this is the smoky barroom funk of "Jumpin' Jack Flash," which renders the actual tune almost unrecognizable, but nevertheless completely enthralling. Ditto for "Heart of Stone," which receives an extraordinarily jazzy, Booker T. & the MG's-soaked overhaul. Aside from Goldberg and his superb band -- which includes veterans Greg Sutton, Don Heffington, and Denny Freeman -- there are several astounding guest performances. Ex-Rolling Stones lead guitarist Mick Taylor shines on two songs, most notably a slithering version of "Ventilator Blues." This track also features another Stones sideman, Ernie Watts, who also appears on several other cuts delivering his usual tasty sax runs. Producer Carla Olson also steps out of the booth, performing guitar on a few cuts, including an exceptionally soulful reading of "As Tears Go By." But in the end, Stoned Again -- despite all of the guest appearances and the Stones-based material -- is really a resplendent example of Barry Goldberg's incredible, underrated musicianship, and for that reason alone is well worth a listen. ~Review by Matthew Greenwald

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