Some artists sing about where they come from. S.G. Goodman sings through it — every song carrying the weight and the beauty of a place that shaped her and that she refuses to abandon, even when leaving would be the easier choice.
On Friday, June 26, the western Kentucky singer-songwriter brings her fierce, tender catalog to Levon Helm Studios in Woodstock — and it’s hard to imagine a more fitting pairing of artist and room. The 8:00 PM show lands her in one of the most storied listening spaces in the Hudson Valley, a converted barn where the audience sits close enough to hear a guitar string breathe.
Goodman arrives on the strength of Planting by the Signs, her third studio album, released in June 2025 on Slough Water Records and Thirty Tigers. It follows Teeth Marks, the 2022 record that turned critics’ heads and helped earn her the Emerging Act of the Year nod at the 2023 Americana Honors & Awards. Her music lives in the complicated space between love for a place and a clear-eyed reckoning with its failures — songs about farmers and floods, about queer identity in small towns, about the kind of stubborn hope only people who’ve stayed and fought really understand. Her voice does the rest: raw, commanding, shot through with grit, the sound of someone telling the truth whether or not it’s comfortable.
Levon Helm understood that tension as well as anyone who ever picked up a mandolin. The barn off Plochmann Lane was built on a simple belief — that American music is strongest when it’s honest, when it comes from somewhere real and speaks to the people who live there. Goodman’s songs were practically made for the room. In a space this intimate, the quiet moments will land like confessions and the loud ones will rattle the rafters, and somewhere in between you’ll remember why you go to shows in the first place: not for spectacle, but for the rare chance to sit a few feet from an artist who has nothing to hide.
This is a single-artist bill with no opening act announced — just Goodman, her band, and the songs. The June 26 date is part of a 2026 run that stretches across the U.S., Canada, and the U.K., and Woodstock is one of the few rooms on the calendar this small. If you’ve ever wanted to see a major Americana voice in a setting that disappears around the music, this is the one.
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