Steve Goodman - Jessie's Jig & Other Favorites
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Artist: Steve GoodmanEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1998-06-09
Music Label: Red Pajamas
Soundtracks:
- Door Number Three
- Blue Umbrella
- This Hotel Room
- Spoon River
- Jessie's Jig
- It's A Sin To Tell A Lie
- I Can't Sleep
- Moby Book
- Lookin' For Trouble
- Mama Don't Allow It
Music reviews of Jessie's Jig & Other Favorites
Music Review: Ain't it hard to realize....
Rating: 5 Stars
The first time I saw Steve Goodman was in 1974, on an episode of Soundstage (a great PBS show!) starring Arlo Guthrie with Hoyt Axton. Steve played 3 songs that stood out for me. "Would You Like to Learn to Dance", which is in the running for best song ever IMHO, "Door Number Three", a song written with Jimmy Buffet, which may not be the best song, but displays a wry wit and charm and manages to quote Bob Dylan in a song about a really silly game show, that was popular at the time, called "Let's Make A Deal" (I only explain that, because I've played it for younger people, who don't know the show, and don't get the references to Monty Hall, dressing up in weird costumes with signs that audience members hoped would attracr Monty's attention, Carol Merill, or even Door Number Three), and "It's a Sin To Tell a Lie", which is a song "I wrote when I was working under the name, Fats Waller" and emphasized Steve's wonderfully manic guitar playing.
The Album "Jessie's Jig & Other Favorites" opens with "Door Number Three" with all its wit and charm intact. "It's a Sin To Tell a Lie" opens side 2 of the vinyl album, sounds alive with its own manic brilliance. This was Steve's first self produced album, I believe, and he took the opportunity to play with some of his boyhood idols, specifically Carl Martin's string band and mandolin virtuoso and one half of the legendary country comedy act Homer and Jethro, Jethro Burns. Just listen to the joy in the title track and "Mama Don't Allow", it's absolutely infectious! There is also an exquisite performance of a song by the writer of "The Dutchman", Michael Smith, called "Spoon River", which has more production than I normally like on Steve's songs, but here everything just works, from the beautiful harmonica to the chorus in the background, surrounding Steve doing what he does best, singing a song that says something in a totally unique way. This is one album I got as soon as it came out on CD. It's the closest, again IMHO, of all his studio albums to the way he was in concert, with just a touch (but not to much) of studio wizardry. I consider myself a true fan, and this is my favorite of Steve's studio albums. Ain't it hard to realize...he's gone.
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