On days when the singer-songwriter S.G. Goodman is at her home outside Murray, Kentucky, she likes to head out to her friend Mr. Bob’s place. A retired painting professor at Murray State University, Mr. Bob lives on a hundred-acre piece of mostly untouched land on the edge of Calloway County. Goodman helps the eighty-year-old maintain the gardens and walking trails, transplanting garlic bulbs that have been in the ground for more than forty years and
