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Affordable Art
Steve Goodman
Price $ 11.98
Reviewer: David from Houston, TX USA:
I bought this album simply because it had A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request. Little did I know
I'd be getting an album packed full of Steve Goodman classics.
First, let me start out with the first track, If Jethro Were Here. This instrumental prize
borderlines with the spiritual for me. When I hear it, I imagine flying over a wooded area
viewing rivers, and valleys below; as if I were an eagle soaring high above.
The other great tracks on this album include Vegematic, which applies even today. I know
you'll be able to relate to this one! Talk Backwards is a Goodman original that makes you
wonder why no other artist has produced a song along the lines of this concept.
Goodman's duet with John Prine on Souvenirs is a classic. I promise you'll love this one. Any
baseball fan will appreciate Steve's rendition of Take Me Out to the Ballgame and his
original A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request.
Lastly, as a Jimmy Buffett fan, I never really cared for Buffett's recording of California
Promises. However, Steve seems to give it meaning and substance on this album. Simply
put, he wrote it, and he knows exactly how to make it work. God bless the late Steve
Goodman.
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Artistic Hair
Steve Goodman
Price $ 11.98
Reviewer: spacenurse from Venice, CA United States:Steve Goodman did this album after losing his hair to Chemotherapy. I love it. It has his hits "City of
New Orleans" and "You Never Even Call Me by my Name". I often make new friends listen to
"Three Legged Man" They love it and laugh. This man knew how to have fun! Listening to
ARTISTIC HAIR will bring you joy too!
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Easter Tapes
Steve Goodman
Price $ 13.28
Reviewer: David from Houston, TX USA:
This album reveals how much Steve Goodman enjoyed performing to a live audience. Better yet, this
album contains live recordings of a more intimate setting (i.e. a radio studio) without a typical
audience applauding or shouting out requests.
If you want to hear some heavy picking from Steve, then this is the album for you. A lot of the
tracks are available on other albums, however, they are not the live versions represented
here. Some of my favorite tracks on this album include Video Tape, Big Iron, and 18 Yellow
Roses. There's also a bonus 'hidden track' after the Runaway which definitely bring out
Steve's spontenaity and love of performing live.
Simply put, buy this album.
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High and Outside
Steve Goodman
Price $ 12.33
Steve Goodman released this ten song collection in 1979. Young and good, a vital part of your Goodman collection.
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Hot Spot
Steve Goodman
Price $ 12.33
Reviewer: coffeeah@hills.net from Black Hills, South Dakota:
My vinyl copy is about worn out from playing these wonderful songs and dancing to Steve Goodman's's
rhythm and beat and each note. It is heartfelt and truly amazing, as Steve always was. It is a
tragedy that he is gone, but his music is very much alive and sometimes emotes a feeling like
being in a gospel church, ya just gotta get up and shake it!! He plays up and down the scale of
notes and emotions.
For instance' Bobby Don't Stop' is heard on the anthology' No Big
Surprise', as is 'Talk Backwards'-another of Steve's marvels of lyrics. If you want more, this CD
is where to find them. One of my favorite love songs is 'Sometimes Love Forgets' with this
lyric-"..sometimes love forgets what's right or wrong even when you know you got to let it go
-don't let go-sometimes love forgets..."This love song reminds me of the tenderness of another
love song on his first album,titled' Would You Like to Learn to Dance?'
This seemed to me to be
a be a very limited vinyl release, as I didn't see it in the stores alot, and I had found a DJ copy
and considered it a treasure each time I came across it. He really gets down and gets funky
and let's loose. Any other devotee of this great Chicago folk artist will have to let their spirit
soar with repeated listenings, as I have, and I consider it a gift from Steve and this record
company that continues to release it to his old and new fans. Let's buy them up so they can
keep finding them to release to us. I know he had done Easter shows on a New York radio
station. I have heard some of these tapes, I hope more are out there for release.
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Jessie's Jig & Other Favorites
Steve Goodman
Price $ 12.33
Reviewer: Scott D. Whiten from Claremont, CA USA:
I've heard quite a bit, but not all of Steve Goodman's work, and I plan to hear more now that
the old albums are out on CD and new compilations keep surfacing. Jessie's Jig was the first
of his albums I heard (thanks to friends on a Baja camping trip) and it's still my favorite.
This one starts with "Door Number 3," co-written with Jimmy Buffet, about the old "Let's Make
a Deal" TV show, with a cameo Bob Dylan lyric, " . . . do you want to make a deal?" This and
Goodman's song "This Hotel Room," 3rd on this record, were also recorded by Buffet. These
two songs, along with "Moby Book" (the Great American Novel distilled down to its essence,
in 12 bar blues, in 3:07) supply the humor.
Lost love is the theme of John Prine's song, "Blue Umbrella," and in Goodman's "I Can't
Sleep." Both are nicely delivered ballads, and both will choke you up a little if you look the
words over and remember that one (you remember the one) who left you away back when.
I'm still "thinking this thing over," but it helps to know that Prine and Goodman understand.
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Live Wire
Steve Goodman
Price $ 12.33
Reviewer: Tobias Gibson from Chicago:
What makes Live Wire different than any of the previously released live recordings of Steve Goodman's
is that this recording is of one Concert on one night. The Easter Tapes was drawn from the 3
different radio broadcasts over a span of three years. Live Wire is from one concert at the
Bayou Theater.
What's more, the concert was with a complete back up band, complete with drums, electric
guitar, piano, other percussions, and horns.
Among the best cuts on the CD are the opener which is "You're the Girl I Love", a love ballad
that Steve wrote for his wife Nancy. Probably the second best song is "The One That Got
Away" which is a duet with Amy Madigan. (yes the Amy Madigan who went on to star on both
Televsion and the Movies)
Other songs of special note are "Men Who Love Women Who Love Men" and "Crazy Mary".
This is the only commercially available release of "Crazy Mary", a Michael Smith song. As for
"Men Who Love Women", this is the best version available anywhere and it is performed the
way it should be, that is live.
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No Big Surprise: Anthology
Steve Goodman
Price $ 26.58
Still best remembered for his evocative "City Of New Orleans," which brought Arlo Guthrie
his long single hit, the late Steve Goodman was a gifted songwriter, affecting singer, and
spirited acoustic guitarist who forged a link between the urban troubadors of the '60s and the
"sensitive" singer-songwriters of the '70s. The elfin Chicagoan could tug heart strings as well
as the latter camp (try his version of "The Dutchman," or fine originals like "Banana
Republics" and "Yellow Coat"), but Goodman was never content to brood over mere
heartbreak. His recordings and solo live performances were ripe with humor, from lively
updates of old rags and Tin Pan Alley tunes ("It's A Sin To Tell A Lie") to topical parodies
("Lincoln Park Pirates," "Chicken Cordon Bleus," and the ultimate country song, "You Never
Even Call Me By My Name," written with John Prine), and this generous two CD anthology
captures it all, culling studio and stage tracks from throughout his career. --Sam Sutherland
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