Kentucky alt-country singer-songwriter S.G. Goodman is back today with a deluxe edition of her excellent 2025 album Planting By The Signs. The album title is a reference to farming, so naturally she's calling the deluxe (Re) Planting By The Signs.
Goodman put some fascinating tweaks on the deluxe album routine. There are five bonus tracks, but one of them, "Heaven Sold," appears at the start of the album, before the original tracklist kicks in. The other bonus tracks appear at the end, as is customary. There's a revved-up "redux" of previously sparse and somber album track "Heat Lightning." Goodman's recent cover of the Butthole Surfers' freak '90s hit "Pepper" is on there too. So is a fresh Dan Reeder cover of Goodman's "I'm In Love." And it all ends with spouses Tyler Childers and Senora May covering title track "Planting By The Signs."
Goodman shared a statement about Childers and May's contribution:
Senora was one of the first people I spoke with about writing an album around the beliefs of “Planting by the Signs.” It turns out her father, who farms, has practiced the old belief her whole life. In its essence, my title track includes the foundational philosophy of “Moon Planting” within a love song narrative. Who better than Tyler and Senora Childers to join on a song written about the alignment of the stars in the very cabin that brought them together? To my knowledge, it was the first time the two of them had recorded a song together. To say I am honored is a disservice to the feeling held. On top of that, both Childers agreed to have the proceeds of this track support my local NPR affiliate, WKMS. In Kentucky neighborly fashion, from the east to the west, we joined to support our neighbors receiving crucial weather updates, national and local news, and local music promotion–which all three of us have benefited from.
Listen to the Childers/May version of "Planting By The Signs," as well as the whole of (Re) Planting By The Signs, below.
(Re) Planting By The Signs is out now via Slough Water/Thirty Tigers.
