If you saw the band Boston in its ‘70s heyday you’ll know they had two killer guitarists, not just one. The one that you can still see up close at a club gig is Barry Goudreau.

Goudreau left the superstar band in 1980, and in recent years he’s arguably been the most visible member of Boston’s classic lineup. He led two recording bands, RTZ and Orion the Hunter, and worked extensively with fellow Boston alums Brad Delp and Sib Hashian (both now deceased). There’ll be plenty of Boston in the set when his current band the Engine Room plays City Winery on Saturday. But the band has two albums worth of solid original songs to draw from as well. And they also do some cover tunes, including a couple (from Joe Walsh’s original band the James Gang) that Boston did in the very early days.

“We’ve had a good time making music with Engine Room- – The first record we did was more looking back at my blues roots, and the second was more of a rock record,” he said this week. “The influences you hear are basically the ones I had before Boston took off — the James Gang, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple. I can’t say there is much new music that really gets me excited, and I can understand that people want to revisit the era when music was really exciting.” Still, he’ll always mix new material with the familiar tunes. “That can be a problem, but it’s the same way for everyone from that era, unfortunately. A band like Journey can make a new album and it’s barely a blip.”.

“If I described what I’m doing as a tribute act, I’m sure I’d sell more tickets,” he said this week. “But I’m not just doing this for the money. Obviously I want to touch on all the Boston stuff and I don’t want to send people away disappointed that we didn’t play some of it. We do most of the first album and a few from the second one, and we keep it pretty close to the record. At the same time, I did have some relative success with the other bands I was in, so I would like it to be reflective of my whole career and not just part of it.”

His biggest moment with Boston was the classic track “Long Time,” where he played the guitar solo; he also shared lead with bandleader Tom Scholz on “Don’t Look Back.” “I did play a lot of guitar on the early recordings, the demos and so forth. But the further Tom Scholz got into it, the more he played; I think everybody knows that the studio work was mostly him and Brad. But onstage we did play quite a bit shoulder to shoulder — or shoulder to waist, because he’s so much taller than me.”

The core of Engine Room has been with Goudreau for decades; bassist Tim Archibald and singer/keyboardist Brian Maes go back to Orion the Hunter and RTZ (both were also in Peter Wolf’s band). Drummer Tony DePietro came in after Hashian passed; and there are three female singers to handle those walls of Boston vocals. Goudreau is even doing some of the singing himself. “I’m actually singing a little less because the girls do such a good job. Looking back 20/20 again, I should probably have focused on that a little bit more. Put it this way: I’m no Rod Stewart, but I can carry a tune.”