Such authenticity allows Goodman to deftly bridge the gap between influence and inspiration on Old Time Feeling. “And when you're singing songs and writing words, if they're not true to you, it's really hard to sell someone else on that.' “There's something that is very noticeable, as an artist, when you're not being authentic,' she professes. To say she wears her heart on her sleeve would be a massive understatement. The reason to address this in a guitar magazine is because of how utterly essential it is to Goodman's artistry. TIDBIT: Although Jim James is credited as producer, he was intensely involved in preproduction while Goodman handled the hands-on studio work. And, after our conversation took a lengthy detour into Kentucky politics, she noted: “We will never have true representation unless we do some campaign finance restructuring.'

She seems to have a clear grasp on the partisan nature of politics currently plaguing America, with keen insight into the influence of corporate money and how it directly affects local communities. Just this past year, she was a staunch, vocal supporter of Charles Booker, and then went on to stump, somewhat begrudgingly, for Amy McGrath after her win in the 2020 Democratic primaries in Kentucky. Goodman's progressive identity infuses both person and performer, which is why she likely ditched the Savage Radley pseudonym. Eventually, her impassioned and idiosyncratic voice caught the attention of My Morning Jacket's Jim James, by way of a song she placed on a local benefit album called Pine Mountain Sessions, Vol. She subsequently moved to Murray, Kentucky, for college, and became a politically motivated and musically active member of the town's post-punk indie scene, recording and performing under the Savage Radley moniker. “When you're singing songs and writing words, if they're not true to you, it's really hard to sell someone else on that.'Īt 15 years old, Goodman was gifted a Larivée LV-03 guitar for Christmas, and a “little VHS tape,' she says, by Herb Chapman, father of Christian artist Steven Curtis Chapman, called The Chapman Technique: Beginning Guitar & Vocal Method for Praise & Worship, that she learned to play from. The lilt in the voices of long-gone singers like Hulda Roberts and Aunt Molly Jackson-along with much, much more-seems part of Goodman's DNA. That likely accounts for why some of the deeper tendrils of her music appear extended from the gospel songs John and Alan Lomax recorded in Kentucky for the Library of Congress between 19, which can be heard online as The Lomax Kentucky Recordings. Goodman got her musical start singing in church three times a week. From the negative effects of corporate influence on local communities via the money pipeline to politics, to the challenges of revealing and addressing one's own sexual identity, to the belief that you can still love your neighbors, even though you might disagree with them, Old Time Feeling taps into the zeitgeist. And though these themes might be derived directly from her life in the South, they also manage to transcend such intimacy to resonate in ways that most Americans will find all-too-familiar. The songs “Space and Time,' “Supertramp,' “The Way I Talk,' and “Burn Down the City' lay bare Goodman's personal tales of heartache, protest, estrangement, and reconciliation.

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