The Kentucky-based musician will perform on Saturday, Oct. 28, at Union Stage.
On the rollicking title track of her debut album, “Old Time Feeling,” S.G. Goodman illustrates some contradictions and misconceptions of living in the South, a place marked by age-old wounds, the real price of a paycheck and a diet of “gas station delicacies.”“The Southern state is a condition, it’s true,” she sings. “I’ve got a little proposition for you: Stick around and work your way through.”
Born in Hickman, Ky., a tiny town on the Mississippi River, the singer-songwriter is now based in Murray, Ky., a college town about an hour closer to Nashville. True to her lyrics, Goodman has stuck around and is working through being the change she hopes to find in the South. “It’s always good to tell folks that the South is a very diverse place, no matter how we’re portrayed as far as the media goes,” Goodman says. “There’s a lot of open-minded and progressive people that are taking up space in the South, especially in rural Kentucky. It’s important to make sure that those stories are told, but also to give respect to all my neighbors and shed light on some of the conditioning of why people feel the way they do in rural places.
Goodman’s solo career has existed almost entirely under the shadow of the pandemic; “Old Time Feeling” was released in July 2020. But despite — or perhaps as a balm for — the tragedy and isolation of the period, Goodman’s songs have connected with listeners and other musicians. The sway-and-cry ballad “Space and Time” has been covered by Mereba on the soundtrack for Paul Schrader’s “Master Gardener” and by Tyler Childers, a fellow Kentuckian and country neoclassicist, on his latest album.
“I’m really proud of both of the covers that have come out of that song, and honored,” Goodman says. “To have such a personal song take on new life, with other artists taking it on and believing in it, it’s wonderful.”
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