S.G. Goodman

Born in 1988, S.G. Goodman (Shaina Gail Goodman) is a singer-songwriter from Hickman, western Kentucky. Raised in a rural farming community on the Mississippi River, she learned to sing in the Baptist church, picked up the guitar at the age of fifteen and studied philosophy at Murray University, before devoting herself to music. She started out in the band The Savage Radley, which produced the album Kudzu (2017), before turning to a solo career. Produced by Jim James, of the band My Morning Jacket, her debut album Old Time Feeling, released in 2020, draws on the American musical fund, between alternative country, rural folk and indie rock influences. Her songs, with their social and political content, touching on poverty, religion and homosexuality, aroused the interest of specialist critics, while Tyler Childers covered one of her tracks, "Space and Time", on his album Rustin' in the Rain. Appearing at the Newport Festival in July 2021, S.G. Goodman, who had signed with the Verve Forecast label, went on to work on her second album, Teeth Marks (2022), which was more personal, dark and introspective, and led to her first solo tour. A queer artist in a Southern region, S.G. Goodman followed this up with the album Planting by the Signs, released in June 2025.