Hezekiah Good
Hezekiah Goode plays music solidly in the vein of the old-time folk and country music that he grew up listening to in rural southern Missouri – music that has been heard in America forever. There are backwoods adventure songs like ‘Half-Brother to Leviathan’, a story of three young romancers home from World War II who find themselves crossways of a bull “fathered by a funnel cloud, foretold in Revelations”. There are tales of economic desperation, as when Goode sings impressionistically in “Rosalie” of a mother with “children like fireflies flickering off” and landlords who “all seem to have tenement dreams”. There are songs about starry-eyed fools and out-of-touch politicians. There are songs about unruly women – women with mean right hooks and hot-blooded wives who sneak off to dance burlesque. In addition to his own compositions, Goode also draws upon an extensive catalog of songs by traditional country and folk singers such as Lefty Frizell, Johnny Horton, Doc Watson, Woody Guthrie, and of course Hank Williams Sr. There’s even the occasional heel-cracking Irish jig for the unstoppably (and/or illegally) jolly.
The Walnut Room, 3131 Walnut St, Denver, CO, 80205 (More Info)
