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'A Complete Unknown' forgot about this legendary Jewish rocker, but history will remember Barry Goldberg

JL;DR SUMMARY Barry Goldberg, a legendary yet often overlooked Jewish musician, passed away at 83 after a decade-long battle with non-Hodgkin Lymphoma. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish HistoryMusic IndustryBob DylanJewish MusicianCollaborationsNewport Folk FestivalBarry GoldbergElectric FlagChicago BluesNon Hodgkin Lymphoma

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Chicago, Illinois, United States
"He also recorded several acclaimed solo albums, including 2018s wonderful In The Groove, a mostly instrumental tribute to the R&B sounds that first fired his imagination as a young Chicagoan."

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