A masterclass in leaving your audience feeling like they got every cent of their money's worth. RIP legend
@Eldooodarino7 ай бұрын
Austin City Limits was free. Only problem was you had to drink all the beer you could manage and it was free too.
@desertbill013 ай бұрын
I imagine the guy who loaned Steve his hat has a story to tell for life.
@dennistate5953Ай бұрын
Reckon?!❤
@paulauvray19623 ай бұрын
I am 76 years old and is the first time i listen to Steve Goodman and i am very please ! you can call him Special 🥰
@rickwiese54382 ай бұрын
I saw Steve Goodman perform in a college gymnasium in 1981. Sadly, the crowd was sparse. Rather than go onstage, Steve pulled up a metal chair and had us gather around him on the gym floor. He played this song and, of course, City of New Orleans. He also played a new song he'd just written called "A Dying Cubs Fan's Last Request" (Steve was a lifelong Cubs fan). What virtually nobody knew at the time was that the song was autobiographical. Steve was dying of leukemia. He passed away in September 1984, just four days before the Cubs clinched a spot in the postseason for the first time since 1945 (Steve was born in 1948). I will always treasure the memory of seeing him perform in person.
@donnahankins58992 ай бұрын
I'm fixing to die now
@briannickerson68584 ай бұрын
I was on my friend’s sailboat out of Beverly Massachusetts when we heard on the radio that Steve died. The station then continued to play Steve’s songs all afternoon. Sad day but Steve’s humor helped.
@deborahfairbanks40123 ай бұрын
He wrote one of my all time favorite songs..."The City of New Orleans"
@user-xv4hp5vt8j6 ай бұрын
Only goodman could pull that performance like this off
@jdl341 Жыл бұрын
He was a genius.
@ListentoFolkMusic Жыл бұрын
Yes he was
@jdl341 Жыл бұрын
@@ListentoFolkMusic My brother saw Steve at a small venue in Atlanta. When they closed due to time restrictions, Steve went out and sang on the sidewalk. He did Red Red Robin and my brother was delighted when I found his version on You Tube. He was a big fan and I became one too.
@travisbickle707 Жыл бұрын
Great collaboration between Prine and Steve. David Allan Coe took this song to epic proportions. Three great musicians 🎶🎤🎸
@g00glyelm07 ай бұрын
Coes take was dramatic, in the melosphere
@Staylogical Жыл бұрын
Steve ,John Prine and Jimmy Buffet were best buds,lived together in Chicago,and wrote a bunch of songs together,like this one.
@jdosantamonica Жыл бұрын
I love the relish Goodman takes in the song’s audacity! His joy is a joy to behold!
@ListentoFolkMusic Жыл бұрын
So true Jonathan. Thank You
@mrtablesawful Жыл бұрын
He's sort of the Keith Moon of country music. This is a great song and I miss Austin City Limits from when I was a kid.
@dbouton608 Жыл бұрын
omg, Steve Goodman, how I wish you were still with us!!!!
@ListentoFolkMusic Жыл бұрын
100%
@janhensley3617 Жыл бұрын
RIP Steve Goodman Thanks for the music 🎶🎸
@archerbodine55708 ай бұрын
I miss him everyday and then here I find him still celebrating the joy of living .. Flow gently, brother dear.
@patmcgrath6098 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for finding this and sharing 😊😊😊
@ListentoFolkMusic Жыл бұрын
My pleasure!!
@druNkwriter Жыл бұрын
One of my all time favorite heroes. So wonderful to see him live like this. Really wish he was still here. Thanks so much for posting this.
@ListentoFolkMusic Жыл бұрын
Happy to post it
@sartainja Жыл бұрын
Maybe Prine and Goodman are out there knocking them dead tonight.
@paulwhite5840 Жыл бұрын
My life is complete!
@pcoffey492 ай бұрын
He wrote the best damn country song......this one. The best damn train song..........City of New Orleans. And the best damn anti-war song.........Penny Evans.
@shawnbruce693414 күн бұрын
This Man Was F Ing Amazing.
@user-hf8ie8mf3n28 күн бұрын
Saw this in high school and taped it off the air…onto 8-track. Just played this for my 15 yr old daughter. I’m old. Took a friend of mine to see him and John P. in Seattle a few years before he passed. Sometimes an artist just touches you, for whatever reason. Steve was that for me. Just special. 👍🤪🏳️🌈
@rycward4664 Жыл бұрын
So great to see Steve perform live! I've been a fan of his music ever since I heard it a long time ago!
@ListentoFolkMusic Жыл бұрын
He is so great live hard to top
@cindyr4242Ай бұрын
Outstanding! An Ace in a deck of cards!
@LockingDevice Жыл бұрын
Pure genius! The luminary at work and performing! 🤠
@ListentoFolkMusic Жыл бұрын
❤🎉 yes yes
@napili5470 Жыл бұрын
I saw Steve Goodman at Harrah's Club at South Shore Lake Tahoe. He was the opening act for Steve Martin. It was probably around 1975. He was great.
@ListentoFolkMusic Жыл бұрын
I would love to have been at that show.
@larrymclarnon-pd8xf3 күн бұрын
Steve and John must have been the very best of mates, and that is certainly good enough for me.
@daryllect6659 Жыл бұрын
So sad that leukemia killed him. I have CML and feel so lucky to still be alive, thanks to OHSU and the V.A.
@ListentoFolkMusic Жыл бұрын
So sad. Sorry to hear about Your CML.
@oceana92944 ай бұрын
I wish I had a chance to see Steve Goodman in concert. He is having so much fun with this song that you can't help but be mesmerized by his personality and talent. Hand to heart, rest in peace Mr Musicman extraordinaire!
@charlesnewcomb65203 ай бұрын
What? A awesome individual but saying this song.God bless America today.We need it
@claudeschlecker8004 ай бұрын
We saw Steve many times in Chicago; my friend threw my straw cowboy hat on stage when Steve sang the greatest country song ever written. Surprisingly I got it back after ten rows of people passed it back. Steve was such a great entertainer! At the Parkwest Theater in Chicago we heard him sing A Dying Cub Fans Last Request which he had just written on the flight from California that day. We were seated at the first table about 10 feet away from him at the nightclub Parkwest theater. Always loved his performances!! What an entertainer!!! The City of New Orleans song still my favorite.
@houstonjoelene38818 ай бұрын
One of the greatest songs and songwriters of all time. We miss you Steve!
@fewhite5126 Жыл бұрын
Such a joyous and talented person.
@g00glyelm07 ай бұрын
I had the joy and privilege to see Steve 6/times as a teenager in the late 70s. He remains to most vivid and happy warriors I have ever seen. If I could be half that happy and half that sincerely a bringer of joy to others I would count my life full up. I am almost 20 years older than Goodman at his death and every time I go back to these songs I get happy, not sad though Imwish he were still here. And John Prine, and others.
@sartainja Жыл бұрын
Viva the memory and music of Steve Goodman. Hope Steve and John on the other side picking together.
@buttsnet Жыл бұрын
About time this one showed up! I have been looking for it for 15 years! "What a lid!"
@blessedrthepoor9422 Жыл бұрын
Soooo good man
@ListentoFolkMusic Жыл бұрын
Thank you
@robertderrickcopeland3932 Жыл бұрын
Oh how wish he was still with us❤
@soundzandwordzandimagez4323 Жыл бұрын
Just heard Prine sing it on YT minutes ago in 2023...they both did the song justice. He does it in a lite hearted way but i imagine he was in serious sad shape when Prine came back to the hotel.
@daleigou943 Жыл бұрын
Memories!
@ListentoFolkMusic Жыл бұрын
100%
@othmarloschy9639Ай бұрын
this makes me laugh out loud and cry and laugh and cry.............
@fccccfrock5184 Жыл бұрын
Good morning America, How are YOU !!!!!! .........we are remember . .......alex vitebsk 🎩
@Nancy-zk9dj Жыл бұрын
I just watched John Prine's version and story about this song. 2 so very great talents
@gar949 Жыл бұрын
Awesome!!!!
@ListentoFolkMusic Жыл бұрын
Thanks!!
@user-xg6th6ge4d Жыл бұрын
Saw Steve and John at Chicago fest. Was to young to appreciate it…….😮😢😕
@michaelstucker673926 күн бұрын
Comedic genius. Goodman and Buffet. Break a leg in the next world, ma brothers!
@jbizzle761627 күн бұрын
What a kick ass performance. I’ve been er seen a version of him doing it solo. The best version.
@alkholos Жыл бұрын
Steve Goodman opened a show for Waylon Jennings years ago at the Universal Amphitheater, we lost a great storyteller when he passed away much too young. I loved the middle part when he fakes a musical interlude reminiscent of the late great Roger Miller. RIP old friend.
@ListentoFolkMusic Жыл бұрын
So true. The Roger Miller reference is spot on
@ListentoFolkMusic Жыл бұрын
Lucky show to get to see 🎉❤
@excavatoree Жыл бұрын
Mr. Goodman never "phoned it in," did he? He gave it all he had. Probably more, somehow.
@ListentoFolkMusic Жыл бұрын
He gave his all
@ddchapin3119 Жыл бұрын
RIP 🪦 9/20/1984 - 38 years old. wondering what year this performance is from? What a character… His music lives on.
@ListentoFolkMusic Жыл бұрын
It's from Steve's 1978 performance on Austin City Limits
@agarrett5401 Жыл бұрын
again...thanks
@ListentoFolkMusic Жыл бұрын
you're welcome
@g00glyelm07 ай бұрын
Such a great fun song...amazing Steve makes a band out of an acoustic guitar
@Fldavestone6 ай бұрын
What happened to 45 years? Proud to have grown up in the 50's 60's and 70's
@_alexsams Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the upload!
@ListentoFolkMusic Жыл бұрын
You’re welcome
@ListentoFolkMusic Жыл бұрын
Please subscribe
@rodneyhone22204 ай бұрын
Unreal r.i.p. buddy
@steray81122 ай бұрын
Still the best folk music singer songwriter. Still.
@RichardGirtJR15 күн бұрын
I never knew Steve was so silly. RIP brother.
@mattm597 Жыл бұрын
Clinically insane!!!!! 😳
@willieparish58114 ай бұрын
He is having so much fun
@user-ir3ob9nk2e5 ай бұрын
Just fucking wonderful.
@rgjerde53 Жыл бұрын
Only the good die young! If you want another great Steve Goodman song, listen to "City of New Orleans", recorded by Woody Guthrie and covered (greatly) by Willie Nelson.
@davidferman66405 ай бұрын
Pretty sure it was Arlo rather than Woodie, but you're right, it's a great railway song.
@ShereeBarrow-dz3ws Жыл бұрын
I had to put iny Stetson while listening to this song.
@F.W.Carr_86 Жыл бұрын
🥇
@F.W.Carr_86 Жыл бұрын
🤠
@BuffaloC30510 ай бұрын
I keep thinking that maybe we'll hear new Steve Goodman and John Prine music being released on Heaven's radio.
@roy-nk4vq10 ай бұрын
Wow! Didn't know he had passed. RIP
@user-go9xh7te4q10 ай бұрын
He wrote city of new orleans died of luekimia at 36... Born 1948 Died 1984
@bigdan4938Ай бұрын
He went full Jack Black on that solo!
@SouthernFryd Жыл бұрын
70's chicks were the best. Like 70's music...everything else is just a poor imitation.
@leftyo9589 Жыл бұрын
for sure has a different energy than Coe does with this song, but still good entertainment!
@ListentoFolkMusic Жыл бұрын
Yep lefty o I love to see a great song get played in many styles
@F.W.Carr_86 Жыл бұрын
🏆🏇
@rbloch665 ай бұрын
Guitar drop..... years before the mic drop.
@aldophogasperi652811 ай бұрын
Tribute song to John Prine for fans of John Prine by songwriter Dennis Callahan
@guitarzan2626 Жыл бұрын
I'm my own grandpa
@BlackRider11515 күн бұрын
By Chad Morgan?
@guitarzan262615 күн бұрын
@@BlackRider115 Steve goodman? I think
@g00glyelm07 ай бұрын
I ordered a phone in the name of Gregor Samsa in Red Hook, Brooklyn ca. 1988. not long after his death. Next year I was Allen Ginsburgs research fellow (a kind of snitch of admin asst. bottom dollar for college profs. I still have a beautiful set of Steinbeck's works from the Library of America, and Allen gave me some hash even today in our somewhat enlightened chemical world was actually hallucinatory. NYNEX or NY Bell obliged with a certain gadget called a network interface in I believe March. Steevie was a good man,yuck,and told other stories about that song that Coe and Prine probably dont even know. Now that Prine has gone on to his reward (which should be large, dont you think?) I take out the old Brooklyn White Pages and look around for some things. . .
@kenbrownfield6584 Жыл бұрын
He's Cray
@DrTofutybeast4 күн бұрын
Well if the hat fites ...
@alexanderv77025 ай бұрын
Not for me; and I have some of Steve's albums.
@shawnbruce693414 күн бұрын
How the F do they always come from nothing?
@user-tp4ig5gp8jАй бұрын
I know he wrote this song but David Allen coes version is better
@pontiac4116 ай бұрын
I use to like this song before I knew who Steve Gooman was but now watching him shit on his on work is sad. I wish I had never looked into who he was.
@yuyewu46996 ай бұрын
That's harsh. It is art. He can mash it any way he pleases. He isn't mocking anything. Chill.
@wizard0fozark Жыл бұрын
Wow now I know where jack black copied his entire shtick from
@chrispdorf10 ай бұрын
He died way way way too early ..
@melvinhunt69766 ай бұрын
Keep writing! Don’t try to Sing them!
@k.c.beagle71029 ай бұрын
yuck
@9120w2 ай бұрын
Get off the dope....
@bryankerr9174 Жыл бұрын
David Allan Coe did a lot of the heavy lifting to make this interesting. This guy got lucky.
@fewhite5126 Жыл бұрын
You have this backwards, DAC got lucky getting Steve Goodman's song. It bought Coe a house.
@anthonydavis766 Жыл бұрын
He just can't sing
@vincetownsend25149 ай бұрын
No, you just can't hear!
@anelladambrosio25139 ай бұрын
Una canzone molto bella ,per una voce meravigliosa!😊🤗😍😘🎶🎸🎶💘💓💋💯🌅