Artist: Barry Goldberg
Title: It's All My Vault
Genre: Blues
Label: ItsAboutmusic.com
Website http://www.itsaboutmusic.com
Product Link: http://www.itsaboutmusic.com/newreleases.html
Source Link: http://www.muzikreviews.com/reviews.php?ID=1414

When Barry Goldberg Touches a keyboard magical things happen. This guy just has something in his fingers that makes the keys light up like a thunderstorm lights up the sky at midnight. His sound is identifiable with just a few notes played but a few notes is never enough to satisfy your soul when we're taking about Barry Goldberg music. I mean seriously people, we aren't talking about some run of the mill slack jawed yokel with a keyboard; This is the man who was in Electric Flag, the man who was part of the spectacular Super Session album with Mike Bloomfield, Al Kooper, and Stephen Stills. This is Barry Goldberg, the man, the myth, the legend.

Barry has been kind enough to rummage through his "vault" and find some stuff that we haven't heard before and package them together on his new album It's All My Vault.

Judging by the quality of this material, I'd say that Barry's vault is worth more than Fort Knox but that's just one man's opinion but since I'm the only one writing this, I'd say it's the only one that matters! The highlights on this are many and include tracks one through twelve. Seriously, "Holy High" is like church on Sunday morning with Dr. Martin Luther King leading the prayer. How this was left in the vault is more of a mystery than why Geraldo wasn't left in one after his Al Capone debacle. "Special Sauce" is award winning or at least should take first place at any BBQ that Barry is cooking at. His organ is on fire while the band cooks along behind him sloping sauce on every note they hit.

The last three songs are live and really are the true gems of this album simply because live music is the best music. The first two, "Goin' To Chicago" and "Crazy About You Baby" with singer Melanie Herrold tearing it up, makes it known that she is the one in the room who gets the attention. The third song, "You Gotta Move" is a classic bar room rendition with Terry Reid that only wets your appetite in hopes that someday Barry will find the entire live show in-between the cushions on his couch. Terry takes the vocals and lives in them for about 20 years before belting them out like they are more a part of him than his arms and legs. It is amazing and it just leaves you wanting the entire live show! Anyone listening out there!?

4.5/5 Stars

Key Tracks-You Gotta Move, Holy High, Going to Chicago

Doug Morrissey- Muzikreviews.com Staff

January 22, 2011

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Tracks:
01.After Your Gone (Empty Blues)
02.Holy High
03.Special Sauce
04.Never Too Late
05.Slip and Slide
06.Blue Dreams
07.Rollin on
08.Goodbye and So Long
09.Rock it
10.Going To Chicago (Live)
11.Crazy About You Baby (Live)
12.You Gotta Move (Live)