Search - Steve Goodman :: Hot Spot

Each song is delightful,different, danceable

coffeeah@hills.net | Black Hills, South Dakota | 05/19/1999

(5 out of 5 stars)

"My vinyl copy is about worn out from playing these wonderful songs and dancing to Steve's rhythm and beat and each note. It is heartfelt and truly amazing, as Steve always was. It is a tragedy that he is gone, but his music is very much alive and sometimes emotes a feeling like being in a gospel church, ya just gotta get up and shake it!! He plays up and down the scale of notes and emotions. For instance' Bobby Don't Stop' is heard on the anthology' No Big Surprise', as is 'Talk Backwards'-another of Steve's marvels of lyrics. If you want more, this CD is where to find them. One of my favorite love songs is 'Sometimes Love Forgets' with this lyric-"..sometimes love forgets what's right or wrong even when you know you got to let it go -don't let go-sometimes love forgets..."This love song reminds me of the tenderness of another love song on his first album,titled' Would You Like to Learn to Dance?' This seemed to me to be a be a very limited vinyl release, as I didn't see it in the stores alot, and I had found a DJ copy and considered it a treasure each time I came across it. He really gets down and gets funky and let's loose. Any other devotee of this great Chicago folk artist will have to let their spirit soar with repeated listenings, as I have, and I consider it a gift from Steve and this record company that continues to release it to his old and new fans. Let's buy them up so they can keep finding them to release to us. I know he had done Easter shows on a New York radio station. I have heard some of these tapes, I hope more are out there for release. (Roberta Hilliger,Black Hills,S.D., formerly of Evanston, Illinois)"