i sure knew about barry goldberg though. i'm a giant bloomfield and kooper fan
looks like the album has just been re-released (with the original vocal tracks which ended up being re-recorded much to the dismay of mr goldberg)
A Secret Masterpiece: The Only Album "Bob Dylan" Ever Produced
By Michael Simmons, CounterPunch.
Thomas Wolfe said you can't go home again. Was he right?
One of the quiet gems of 2009 was an album originally produced by Bob Dylan in 1973. Other than his work under the pseudonymous Jack Frost, it's the only album Dylan ever produced. It's not, however, a Dylan record, it's a Barry Goldberg record. Even if you've never heard of Barry Goldberg, you've heard Barry Goldberg. Keyboardist/songwriter/producer, he wrote a #1 hit ("I've Got To Use My Imagination" by Gladys Knight & The Pips) and played on another ("Devil With A Blue Dress" by Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels). As part of the Chicago blues mafia of the 1960s, he ran with the late string king Mike Bloomfield. They co-founded Electric Flag (with Buddy Miles, among others), and Barry later played on the proto-jam Super Session with Mike and Al Kooper and another Bloomers collab, infamously titled Two Jew's Blues. And then there were the Phil Spector productions from Leonard Cohen to the Ramones.
The cat's been around, he's still playing, he's still cookin'. ........
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