S.G. Goodman is an American folk and country singer-songwriter from Hickman, Kentucky. She has released three studio albums, Old Time Feeling in 2020, Teeth Marks in 2022, and Planting by the Signs in 2025, and received the 2023 Emerging Artist of the Year award at the Americana Music Association Awards.
Early life
Goodman was raised in Hickman, Kentucky.[1][2] The Southern Baptist church played a central role in her childhood in Kentucky saying she went to church 3 times a week with her family.[3] Goodman began performing by singing in church.[4] Her father was a farmer.[5] She has played rhythm guitar since she was 15 and been driving since she was 7, which is illegal under Kentucky state law.[6][7]
Prior to her solo career, Goodman started the music project The Savage Radley with drummer Stephen Montgomery, releasing their first and only album Kudzu with Slough Water Records.[11]
In 2021, as a solo artist, she was among other things part of the Newport Folk Festival in July.[16]
In June 2022, Goodman released her second album, Teeth Marks, on Verve Forecast.[17] She usually plays with her guitar tuned down a whole step, though some songs on the record were played in this tuning with a capo.[6] The fifth track on the album, "If You Were Someone I Loved" deals with the opioid crisis.[18] Because her debut album was released during the COVID-19 pandemic, Goodman did not headline a tour for the album. As such, her tour for Teeth Marks was her first solo tour.[19]
