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 Steve Goodie
Steve Goodie: American Comedian/Musician
For as long as songwriters and musicians have been plying their creative wares, it's been understood that music is a funny business. For comedian/songwriter Steve Goodie, a slight twist might be more apt: "Funny is a music business."
Steve has been house emcee at Nashville's Bluebird Cafe for over seventeen years, and he's a favorite of the legendary syndicated radio host/producer Dr. Demento, who calls him "One of our most talented 21st-century parodists." Steve's songs have been played on radio nation-wide, his youtube videos have been seen by millions, he's won numerous awards (both for his songwriting and his technical artistry), he has appeared many times on national TV, and he has performed onstage internationally for decades.
In the thirty-plus years since Goodie first introduced himself and his hilarious parody songs, original compositions, and hysterically blunt observations about our society and the world-at-large, he's put out a body of work rivaled by few artists of any genre. And, for the most part, he's done it by himself.
While a few of the projects (Two Jew Revue, Falling Standards, Actual Size, Girlband, and The Wizenheimerz) have been collaborative efforts, most of his 38 releases (to date) have been solo, with Goodie writing or co-writing every song, playing almost every instrument, engineering, producing, designing the CD packaging (cassette packaging at first), and even directing and producing his own videos.
A Chicago native who has called Nashville home for the vast majority of his career, Goodie - when not performing or recording his own projects - keeps himself busy with Quality Recording, his full-service studio highly in demand among Music City songwriters and artists.
Lately, Goodie's been performing his tribute to two of his heroes, AL! The Weird Tribute (And How Daniel Radcliffe Got Mixed Up In This Nonsense). Critics call it "“A blast," "A gem,” “An hour of warmth and nerdiness,” and “Incredibly charming, high-energy entertainment.”
As Ty Hager, a long-time friend and collaborator, puts it: "He's like a f***ing creative Energizer Bunny, and makes all of us lazier musicians look bad. That's why no one likes him."
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