BARRY GOLDBERG,
LIKE I SAID
Little Village Foundation’s label has just released “Like I Said,” a posthumous recording by the legendary Barry Goldberg who died in January after a decade-long battle with cancer. Just a few weeks before his passing, Goldberg collaborated with guitar great Johnny Lee Schell (Phantom Blues Band) on a track for which Goldberg, then under hospice care, sketched out the tune he envisioned on a portable keyboard that was brought to his bedside. The track, conceived as a sinewy instrumental, is punctuated by Goldberg’s own voice uttering the phrase “Like I Said,” reinforcing the fact that the song is the realization of Goldberg’s musical vision. Any revenues realized by the recording now streaming on all digital platforms are earmarked to the care of his widow Gail Goldberg; had her husband lived, the two would have celebrated their 54th anniversary last month.
