S.G. Goodman

My first mistake was forgetting how big Kentucky is.

S.G. Goodman gently reminds me she’s about a 9 hour drive away from the floods swamping eastern Kentucky when we call in September.

“Don’t worry,” she says with a wiry sigh. “We’ve got a drought and tornados out where I am. Plenty of climate change to go around.”

A Kentucky drowned by biblical floods on one side and parched by drought on the other feeds into Goodman’s newest album Teeth Marks. The record follows the elemental powers of love in all of its forms and, much like a natural disaster, all you can do is pick up pieces in the wake. An electrifying mix of folk, Americana and rock’n’roll, Teeth Marks’ compass rose is Goodman’s lyrical ability to etch flawless short stories. From the devastating one-two punch “If You Were Someone I Loved”/”You Were Someone I Loved” which details the husks and scars left behind from opioid addiction to gut wrenching eulogy “Dead Soldiers,” few have the eyes and lyrical pen to match Goodman. We chatted below.

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