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The Best of Steve Goodman by Steve Goodman. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
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Nov 5, 2021 · The Best Of Steve Goodman. Release date: November 5, 2021. Description. 19 track collection of classic Steve Goodman songs including previously unissued versions of “City Of New Orleans” and “You Never Even Call Me By My Name.” There is no denying Steve Goodman’s impact on the world of songwriting.
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- Go Cubs Go
- You Better Get It While You Can
- The 20th Century Is Almost Over
- You Never Even Call Me by My Name
- My Old Man
- Talk Backwards
- Banana Republics
- A Dying Cub Fan’S Last Request
- City of New Orleans
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Steve Goodman was a Chicago native and huge Cubs fan, even though he lived at a time when the team was the laughingstock of baseball. Steve Goodman was commissioned by WGN, the network that showed Cubs games (and is even mentioned in the song.) If Chicago Cubs fans couldn’t root for a winning team, they could at least have a good song. This became ...
This finger-snapping tune is a tribute to bluesman Carl Martin, whom Steve Goodman considered the greatest musician he ever played with. This is mostly a rap (unusual for 1984) with a sung chorus. Since Carl Martin preferred playing the mandolin, a mandolin is featured in the arrangement. Considering that Steve Goodman was battling what would be a ...
You can’t get more folk than writing a song with John Prine. Both of these legends put their heads together to pen this delightfully weird look at life in the late 1970s – such as linoleum floors and learning about the Great Depression from reading the magazine True Confessions. Time seemed to be going faster than in the 1800s. During live performa...
John Prine and Steve Goodman often performed together, so they write songs together. This time around, they decided to parody just about every country song they ever heard. And succeeded. Steve Goodman does a good Hank Williams impersonation here, especially on the word “crying.” Features gems of lyrics like, “You’re the one who always tried’ to ch...
Many artists have written songs about their fathers, but not many artists show the good and bad sides of their dads. It’s an achingly beautiful song, but not too sentimental. “And, oh, the fights we had” he tenderly sings, but then makes us miss his old man just as much as he misses him. Somehow, his old man is also your old man. When he sings, “An...
This is a goofy, jazz-flavored song that does just what the tile says – talks backwards. But only at certain times. Much of it is talking forwards, in a scat-like rap. It’s an imaginative song that emphasizes just what a unique songwriter Steve Goodman was. This is yet another gem off of the 1984 album Affordable Art. Unlike most other Steve Goodma...
Jimmy Buffett recorded a few of Steve Goodman’s songs, but this arguably is the best one. It’s smooth yet danceable, with touches of tequila and tourism. Goodman takes a look at Americans in Latin America, those running from the IRS and those buying “secondhand American dreams.” The poetry is exquisite, accompanied by fine harmonies and a flute-hea...
This is a funny song about baseball that’s even funny to people who can’t stand baseball. It’s too bad that Steve Goodman never lived long enough to see the Chicago Cubs do the seemingly impossible by winning the World Series in 2016. It only took 108 years. In that time, there have been a lot of perpetually disappointed yet fanatically devoted Chi...
This Steve Goodman composition has been covered so many times, you have to wonder what artists haven’t covered it. Arlo Guthrie’s 1972 version is best known. There’s something about train songs that appeals to even people not all that fond of trains. This one is particularly picturesque, pairing visions of nostalgia with borderline ugly banality. S...
Once upon a time, there were very few television programs late at night. There were, however, a lot of ads. Steve Goodman takes the notion of subliminal messages in advertisements to a new level here, where he sings as a man who sleep shops. Those readers of a certain age easily can remember what a Vegematic was, as well as Ginsu knives, telephones...
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Jan 20, 2022 · Steve Goodman: The Best of Steve Goodman. Back in the 70s, the music was filled with clever singer/songwriters like Steve Goodman. Like wry observers of life like Loudon Wainwright and John Prine, Goodman wrote and sang with clarity, sincerity and humor, with this “Best Of” being a collection of his prime material from a wide variety of ...
Nov 5, 2021 · November 5, 2021 John Apice 1. Steve Goodman – The Best of Steve Goodman. The late singer John Prine always spoke highly of his late friend the Chicago singer-songwriter Steve Goodman.
Nov 5, 2021 · View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2021 CD release of "The Best Of Steve Goodman " on Discogs.
