Paul Butterfield Blues Band (Music Group)

Barry Goldberg, Who Backed Dylan When He Went Electric, Dies at 83

He played keyboards with a host of rock luminaries, but perhaps his most memorable performance was as part of the band that shocked the 1965 Newport Folk Festival.

By Alex Williams

Baez, Joan Bill Monroe Blues Music Cousin Emmy & The New Lost City Ramblers Dylan, Bob Eck Robertson Folk Music Lightnin Hopkins Newport Folk Festival Nineteen Hundred Sixties Odetta Paul Butterfield Blues Band (Music Group) Peter, Paul and Mary (Music Group) Pop and Rock Music Reverend Gary Davis Seeger, Pete Spokes Mashiyane The Chambers Brothers

Bob Dylan Wasn’t the Only 1965 Newport Highlight. Hear 14 More.

Listen to Peter, Paul and Mary’s finale singalong, plus songs from Odetta, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band and more.

By Jon Pareles

Big Brother and the Holding Co Bloomfield, Mike Blues Music Butterfield, Paul Chicago (Ill) Deaths (Obituaries) Electric Flag, The (Music Group) Gravenites, Nick (1938-2024) Joplin, Janis Monterey International Pop Festival Paul Butterfield Blues Band (Music Group) Pop and Rock Music San Francisco (Calif)

Nick Gravenites, Mainstay of the San Francisco Rock Scene, Dies at 85

A blues devotee from Chicago, he tasted fame in the late 1960s with the Electric Flag, a band that made its debut at Monterey but proved short-lived.

By Alex Williams