Barry Goldberg, blues-rock keyboardist whose work with Bob Dylan included controversial Newport '65 Concert, dies at 83 [with hospice care]

01/24/25 at 03:00 AM

Barry Goldberg, blues-rock keyboardist whose work with Bob Dylan included controversial Newport '65 Concert, dies at 83 [with hospice care] 
Variety; by Chris Willman; 1/23/25 
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 dramatized in "A Complete Unknown," died Wednesday [1/23] at 83. Bob Merlis, a representative, said that Goldberg died in hospice care after a 10-year struggle with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, with his wife of 53 years, Gail Goldberg, and son, Aram, at his bedside.

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