Category Archives: Goodnight Texas

Goodnight Texas: 
I'm Going To Work On Maggie's Farm Forever

“Their music sounds like it could be from any time between 1890 and 2015, their backgrounds are as diverse as West Virginia, San Francisco, New Jersey, and North Carolina, and their band name leads you to believe that they are from the Lone Star State.”

Visit Goodnight, Texas‘ website.

Recorded at Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion 2014.

Goodnight Texas: 
I Quit My Job

“If you take out a map and measure the midway point between San Francisco and Chapel Hill, North Carolina — the homes of songwriters Avi Vinocur and Patrick Dyer Wolf, respectively — you’ll find an unincorporated town called Goodnight, Texas (population at last count: 28). That’s what the duo discovered when they went looking for the center of their long-distance collaboration, a musical project that sounds, appropriately enough, like a cross-country drive on Interstate 40: Expansive, full of possibility, American in every sense of the word — the perfect place for missing someone but regretting nothing, for losing yourself in the crackle of guitar through speakers and having a good long think.”

Visit Goodnight,Texas‘ website.

Recorded at Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion 2014.

Goodnight Texas: 
Many Miles From Blacksburg

“Americana is arguably an overused term at the moment — but what sets Goodnight, Texas apart from the pack is its richly imagined, full-color stories. In the longstanding folk tradition of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie and Johnny Cash, Goodnight, Texas sings songs that are each a world in and of themselves — transporting listeners from the battlefields of the deep south to a saloon full of hard-drinking but good-natured regulars to the nervous feeling in the stomach of a poor boy about to ask for his girl’s hand in marriage.”

Visit Goodnight, Texas‘ website.

Recorded at Bristol Rhythm And Roots Reunion 2014.