Beyond being a musician, S.G. Goodman is an educator. Truly, how many of us knew about the old Appalachian tradition of planting by the moon? Using moon phases and their gravitational pull to determine what crops to plant when (beans, peas, and eggplant during the second quarter, if you were wondering).
But the moon’s power has also been tied to births and “otherwise unexplainable circumstances and actions.” Even more fitting that the Kentucky-born country-flecked indie rocker has tied this all together in her new album Planting By the Signs. An album about love, loss, reconciliation, and all of the inner turmoil that sometimes spills out into the real world in between, S.G. Goodman continues to wax poetic, and with this crop of songs getting praise from NPR, Pitchfork, and the New York Times, it’s clear the soil of her songwriting is nutrient-dense, and we’ve only begun to till it.
Goodman stopped by Studio 1A last week to perform songs from Planting By the Signs.