SG Goodman

I’M NEW HERE

SG Goodman swears she doesn’t write concept records, but there is a consistent theme running through the songs of her second album that explains its visceral title. Teeth Marks, the Kentucky songwriter says, is a reflection that “whether love, or empathy, is present or not, it leaves its mark”.

Empathy is something that Goodman has in plentiful supply. She is a proud Southerner ( she sings on “The Heart of It”, ), quick to highlight the diversity of an oft-pigeonholed part of’ 11 songs are drawn from life, Goodman lends her voice to different perspectives: a lovestruck queer couple catching eyes across the aisles of the dollar store; a mother bereaved by the opioid crisis sending up a silent prayer behind the wheel.