07/15/08
The Batch on Radio Rumpus Room Friday, July 11th.
From the Archives of KFAI:
"Check out the visit by maybe the best '60s Minneapolis band you never heard of, the Batch. Barry Thomas Goldberg, Gary Paulak, Arne Fogel, Jay Lee and tag-along musician/friend/Batch fanboy Michael Yonkers visited the Radio Rumpus Room tonight and a grand time ensued."
http://kfai.org/node/12907

NEW 07/08/08
The Batch album to be released in Europe
Anazitisi Records will be releasing The Batch album in Europe, as a limited editin vinyl.
We are very happy and excited to be working with this fine record company!

07/19/07                         Mapleton Memoir

Mapleton Memoir, the new CD by Barry Thomas Goldberg. is available now at the Electric Fetus and online at CD BABY.
Produced by Goldberg/Paulak. © 2007 All rights reserved

www.myspace.com/barrythomasgoldberg

July 18, 2007 - Wednesday
Mapleton Memoir on Electric Fetus Local Top Ten
Electric Fetus One Stop

8. Barry Thomas Goldberg – Mapleton Memoir

Barry Thomas Goldberg is a Minnesota music veteran who began his career as a local songwriter. He is best known for penning the tune "Twenty Years Ago in Speedy's Kitchen" by T.C. Atlantic. Involved with Dove Recording Studios in the 1960's, Goldberg joined the ranks of local legends Arne Fogel, Gary Paulak, and Michael Yonkers. In 2006, Goldberg helped with the release of Candy Floss: The Lost Music of Mid America, a compilation of songs from Dove Studios and that era. Since 1974, he has been recording and releasing solo albums that highlight his outspoken political views and poetic way with words. Goldberg's latest, Mapleton Memoir, is a musical tribute to his late mother, who passed away in 2006. "I was displeased with my prose writing [and] the obvious choice was to write her memoir as a musical album," he says. The result is a beautifully crafted, limited edition album that includes a ten-page booklet of photos and lyrics, "tracing one family's journey through time in pursuit of the elusive American dream." Goldberg's sound has been compared to the likes of Bob Dylan (circa 1970), Woody Guthrie, and Tom Waits."

Barry Thomas Goldberg

Mapleton Memoir

2007

HIJ Recordings

Barry Thomas Goldberg's first recording session was with his band The Shambles at Dove Recording Studios in 1966. He went on to write, record and release several singles with major labels, the best known of which is Twenty Years Ago in Speedy's Kitchen. Later in his career he formed the group The Batch. His solo career began in 1974 with the album "Misty Flats," produced by Michael Yonkers. He did two other solo albums, When the Night Comes (1983) and Absolute Zero (1986). After 16 years, in 2002, he released Empire Moon. Barry Thomas Goldberg has released five critically acclaimed solo albums, including Empire Moon (2002), Cottonwood ( 2004), American Grotesque (2005), and The Last Guitar (2006). He is also featured on the compilation: Candy Floss - The Lost Music of Mid-America 1967-1969 (2006). Mapleton Memoir, his latest album was released June 12, 2007. For further details, reviews and free MP3's check out Barry's website, Ironweeds.com.

So reads the small but effective profile on Goldberg's MySpace page—but that short run-down of his career and accomplishments don't go much toward explaining Barry's Springsteen-meets-Jon-Dee-Graham voice, his innate sense of patriotism, family, and universal love and concern. Mapleton Memoir is as good a place as any to start digging into this local legend's fantastic catalog of genuinely diverse and eclectic musical styles, lyrical messages, and heart-felt declarations.

A true-blue American from the bottom of his heart and a born romantic in his soul, Goldberg consistently delivers delicious, mostly (sadly) unnoticed contributions to the world around him, among them albums like Mapleton Memoirs—which is chock full of hard-hitting lines like this one from "Main Street,” a stand-out among the 11 other excellent tracks on this album: "Sweet redemption wants to dance/You don't ask why/The ferris wheel and flashing light/The carnival of life...the clown found salvation with the priest/It's the time between the wars, say goodbye to peace/On Main Street." Superb stuff and highly recommended. Check Barry out at www.myspace.com/BarryThomasGoldberg or www.ironweeds.com Don't say I didn't tellya a couple dozen times now!!

That's it for this time out, pals o' mine. Keep your shades on, your feet on the ground and your dreams in the clouds- until we meet again, make yer own damn news.

If you have local/regional or print-worthy national music news, gigs, events, CD's you'd like to see mentioned in this space, send replies with the header "TOMMY CAN YOU HEAR ME?" to: tommy@reveillemag.comThis e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or just turn up your mic to "11" and give me a shout—hell, it worked for The Who between England and France, and that's in the Guiness Book Of World Records!!

—from the Magazine Reveille, Round the Dial: by Tom Hallett

01/06/07
Here's a sneak preview of the upcoming album, Barry Thomas Goldberg's "Mapleton Memoir" scheduled release, Spring 2007.

11/26/06
Check out YouTube.com for the music video "Watertown" from the 2002 album Empire Moon, by Barry Thomas Goldberg.

09/23/06
Barry Thomas Goldberg is now recording his 5th album for Ironweeds Productions.
Produced by Goldberg and Gary Paulak. Scheduled release date early 2007.

07/07/06
Available now at the Electric Fetus
and Treehouse Records in Minneapolis, and online at CDBaby

08/20/06
Ironweeds Production's Gary Paulak, has recorded the soundtrack to Robert Ismert's documentary:
Foos: Be The Greatest ©2004-2006, FOOS - Be the Greatest, A Limp Lettuce Productions LLC, Denton, Texas All Rights Reserved

Get the CD at www.foosmovie.com

01/23/2006 From the online magazine Fingertipsmusic.com, January 22, 2006, Barry Thomas Goldberg now in the Select Artists Guide —

Barry Thomas Goldberg NEW
The gruff but lovable Goldberg cuts an unusual 21st-century figure: an old-school Midwestern rock'n'roller who has managed to maintain a youthful sort of defiance and edginess; from the depths of his vivid, cigarette-stained voice comes a sound you just don't hear from the latest batch of Gang of Four wannabe's. Scroll down through the site's willfully unpolished layout and you'll eventually come across seven full-length MP3s. Included among them are two former TWF picks, "American Grotesque" and "Remember New Orleans"; the latest upload, "Visions and Dreams," from his new CD The Last Guitar, sounds like another winner. Thanks to visitor Paul for cluing me in to Goldberg in the first place, and keeping me posted on his comings and goings.