S.G. Goodman shares video for ‘Snapping Turtle’

S.G. GOODMAN SHARES VIDEO FOR NEW SINGLE ‘SNAPPING TURTLE’

NEW ALBUM PLANTING BY THE SIGNS OUT 20 JUNE VIA SLOUGH WATER RECORDS / THIRTY TIGERS

UK TOUR IN SEPTEMBER INCLUDING LONDON’S OSLO

“Maybe her best and certainly her boldest”
9/10 Uncut

“She leaps across the yearning distance separating Waxahatchee from Lucinda Williams”
Pitchfork

“With her sharp eye for character and scene and her arresting voice — which sounds like it could be emanating from a century-old 78 — Goodman is the latest in a wave of Kentucky artists who divine inspiration from their home state”
The New York Times

“Gripping songwriting that is as contemplative as it is captivating”
PAPER

“Her voice glasslike and flecked with pain as she sings”
Rolling Stone

Watch the video for ‘Snapping Turtle’ here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPiJkp_4QUo

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Today, S.G. Goodman releases ‘Snapping Turtle’ the third single from her upcoming third studio album, Planting by the Signs, due out 20 June via her very own Slough Water Records / Thirty Tigers.

‘Snapping Turtle’ is the emotional crux of the new album and one of her best songs to date. A result of diving headfirst into therapy to reconcile with realistic dreams about childhood, the song has pulsing guitar, beautiful harmonies and sparse instrumentation letting the lyrics pierce forward. There is no true chorus, just a seamless story, stream of consciousness, capturing an aching nostalgia about childhood and time passing.  As usual, her precise and unique southern imagery sear through – this track opens with S.G. twisting the script on kids taking a lick at a snapping turtle.

Says S.G. about the track:
“My anxiety and depression had been amounting to weird realistic dreams, where I would vividly enter certain eras of my childhood and young adulthood. I upped my therapy to two, sometimes three times a week during my time at home, and the song ‘Snapping Turtle’ is a reflection of that.

That song came to me as seasons that have passed, and is a window into my process of understanding the impact of moving through time and in understanding how it shapes you and others, as well as reconciling with both a past and future where certain factors were out of your control. It’s a seamless story, with no true chorus, much like my persistent dreams and conversations in therapy.”

‘Snapping Turtle’ follows previous singles ‘Fire Sign’ and ‘Satellite’ which between them were featured in The Guardian, The New Cue (“magnificent”), Uncut, The Line of Best Fit, Pitchfork, Our Culture, GoldFlakePaint, Holler and more.

S.G. also recently spoke about the new album in a 5-page feature in the latest issue of Uncut, which features contributions from Jim James – who produced her debut record – who said “When I first heard her, I was spellbound,” and Will Oldham – who appears on the new album – who said, “Big power, big vulnerability and an awareness of the vital container of a song inherently is, for exploration of emotion and humanity.”

S.G. also recently announced an August/September European tour with her first ever UK headline tour dates including London’s Oslo, Manchester’s Gullivers and Bristol’s Louisiana. She has today followed up with news of a US tour with dates at NYC’s Bowery Ballroom, L.A.’s Troubadour and Nashville’s Basement East. Full dates can be found here.

While on the road, promoting her debut Old Time Feeling and 2022’s Teeth Marks, S.G. Goodman zig-zagged across the US with a touring schedule that would make even the most seasoned road dog wince. Amidst the non-stop, she endured the loss of her own dog Howard, as well as the death of her friend and mentor Mike, who died tragically in an accident in her hometown of Murray, KY. She parted ways with long term collaborator Matt Rowan due to the strenuous nature of the road, but after the death of Mike, they reconciled.

Life dealt blows, but she didn’t stop. Until she did. When she returned home to Kentucky to write the next album, she hit a wall, because she hadn’t paused for years. So she took stock got back to nature, and looked back to the ancient Appalachian wisdom of planting by the signs, i.e. idea that cutting your hair, or laying down shingles, are best timed to lunar and planetary cycles.

In the fall of 2024, Goodman decamped to the Nutt House in Sheffield, AL, alongside co-producer Drew Vandenberg (her co-producer on 2022’s Teeth Marks), guitarist/songwriter Matt Rowan. With her two collaborators and a cast of musical characters including Goodman tracked what is by no exaggeration her best record to date. Planting by the Signs finds Goodman exploring this old story and other themes in the only way she knows; with a fresh musical and lyrical perspective, vivid, incisive detail, and a heaping dose of empathy and compassion.

S.G. GOODMAN

Kentucky born-and-raised S.G. Goodman catapulted on to the scene in 2020 with her debut album Old Time Feeling. She took her show on the road across the world, gaining fans and followers, performing with My Morning Jacket, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Margo Price and M.J. Lenderman as well as landing a fan in Tyler Childers, who covered her song ‘Space And Time’ from her debut. ‘Space And Time’ was also covered by Dev Hynes/Blood Orange for the Paul Schrader film Master Gardner.  In 2022, she released Teeth Marks, a critical darling that levelled her up, gaining praise from the New York Times, landing her an NPR Tiny Desk, landing on Pitchfork and NPR’s Best Of lists, and earning her the Best Emerging Artist Award at the 2023 Americana Awards. She clocked over 150 performances in 2023 alone, including headlining sold out tours.

Now, after a fruitful reprieve, S.G. Goodman is back and better than ever.

Pre-order Planting by the Signs here:
https://orcd.co/sg-pbts

Photo credit: Ryan Hartley

High-res images can be found here

Tour Dates:

23 Aug – Falkenberg, SE @ Rootsy Summer Fest
24 Aug – Stockholm, SE @ Stockholm Roots
26 Aug – Oslo, NO @ Belleville
28-29 Aug – Tønder, DK @ Tønder Festival
31 Aug – Den Haag, NL @ Once In A Blue Moon Festival

2 Sep – London @ Oslo Hackney
4 Sep – Manchester @ Gullivers
5 Sep – Bristol @ Louisiana

Tickets are available here:
https://www.sggoodman.net/tour

Planting by the Signs tracklist:

1. Satellite
2. Fire Sign
3. I Can See the Devil
4. Snapping Turtle
5. Michael Told Me
6. Solitaire
7. I’m In Love
8. Nature’s Child (feat. Bonnie “Prince” Billy)
9. Heat Lightning
10. Planting by the Signs (feat. Matthew Rowan)
11. Heaven Song