A masterclass in leaving your audience feeling like they got every cent of their money's worth. RIP legend

He wrote one of my all time favorite songs..."The City of New Orleans"

Only goodman could pull that performance like this off

I was on my friend’s sailboat out of Beverly Massachusetts when we heard on the radio that Steve died. The station then continued to play Steve’s songs all afternoon. Sad day but Steve’s humor helped.

He was a genius.

Steve ,John Prine and Jimmy Buffet were best buds,lived together in Chicago,and wrote a bunch of songs together,like this one.

Great collaboration between Prine and Steve. David Allan Coe took this song to epic proportions. Three great musicians 🎶🎤🎸

I love the relish Goodman takes in the song’s audacity! His joy is a joy to behold!

I am 76 years old and is the first time i listen to Steve Goodman and i am very please ! you can call him Special 🥰

I imagine the guy who loaned Steve his hat has a story to tell for life.

omg, Steve Goodman, how I wish you were still with us!!!!

He's sort of the Keith Moon of country music. This is a great song and I miss Austin City Limits from when I was a kid.

RIP Steve Goodman Thanks for the music 🎶🎸

I miss him everyday and then here I find him still celebrating the joy of living .. Flow gently, brother dear.

My life is complete!

What a kick ass performance. I’ve been er seen a version of him doing it solo. The best version.

One of my all time favorite heroes. So wonderful to see him live like this. Really wish he was still here. Thanks so much for posting this.

He wrote the best damn country song......this one. The best damn train song..........City of New Orleans. And the best damn anti-war song.........Penny Evans.

Thanks for finding this and sharing 😊😊😊

Just heard Prine sing it on YT minutes ago in 2023...they both did the song justice. He does it in a lite hearted way but i imagine he was in serious sad shape when Prine came back to the hotel.

Saw this in high school and taped it off the air…onto 8-track. Just played this for my 15 yr old daughter. I’m old. Took a friend of mine to see him and John P. in Seattle a few years before he passed. Sometimes an artist just touches you, for whatever reason. Steve was that for me. Just special. 👍🤪🏳️‍🌈

Pure genius! The luminary at work and performing! 🤠

So great to see Steve perform live! I've been a fan of his music ever since I heard it a long time ago!

So sad that leukemia killed him. I have CML and feel so lucky to still be alive, thanks to OHSU and the V.A.

Outstanding! An Ace in a deck of cards!

I saw Steve Goodman at Harrah's Club at South Shore Lake Tahoe. He was the opening act for Steve Martin. It was probably around 1975. He was great.

We saw Steve many times in Chicago; my friend threw my straw cowboy hat on stage when Steve sang the greatest country song ever written. Surprisingly I got it back after ten rows of people passed it back. Steve was such a great entertainer! At the Parkwest Theater in Chicago we heard him sing A Dying Cub Fans Last Request which he had just written on the flight from California that day. We were seated at the first table about 10 feet away from him at the nightclub Parkwest theater. Always loved his performances!! What an entertainer!!! The City of New Orleans song still my favorite.

This Man Was F Ing Amazing.

I wish I had a chance to see Steve Goodman in concert. He is having so much fun with this song that you can't help but be mesmerized by his personality and talent. Hand to heart, rest in peace Mr Musicman extraordinaire!

I just watched John Prine's version and story about this song. 2 so very great talents

Such a joyous and talented person.

Viva the memory and music of Steve Goodman. Hope Steve and John on the other side picking together.

Oh how wish he was still with us❤

One of the greatest songs and songwriters of all time. We miss you Steve!

What? A awesome individual but saying this song.God bless America today.We need it

I had the joy and privilege to see Steve 6/times as a teenager in the late 70s. He remains to most vivid and happy warriors I have ever seen. If I could be half that happy and half that sincerely a bringer of joy to others I would count my life full up. I am almost 20 years older than Goodman at his death and every time I go back to these songs I get happy, not sad though Imwish he were still here. And John Prine, and others.

Memories!

About time this one showed up! I have been looking for it for 15 years! "What a lid!"

Soooo good man

Saw Steve and John at Chicago fest. Was to young to appreciate it…….😮😢😕

Good morning America, How are YOU !!!!!! .........we are remember . .......alex vitebsk 🎩

Awesome!!!!

Mr. Goodman never "phoned it in," did he? He gave it all he had. Probably more, somehow.

RIP 🪦 9/20/1984 - 38 years old. wondering what year this performance is from? What a character… His music lives on.

this makes me laugh out loud and cry and laugh and cry.............

Steve Goodman opened a show for Waylon Jennings years ago at the Universal Amphitheater, we lost a great storyteller when he passed away much too young. I loved the middle part when he fakes a musical interlude reminiscent of the late great Roger Miller. RIP old friend.

Comedic genius. Goodman and Buffet. Break a leg in the next world, ma brothers!

again...thanks

Unreal r.i.p. buddy

Such a great fun song...amazing Steve makes a band out of an acoustic guitar

What happened to 45 years? Proud to have grown up in the 50's 60's and 70's

Clinically insane!!!!! 😳

Still the best folk music singer songwriter. Still.

He is having so much fun

Thanks for the upload!

Just fucking wonderful.

I never knew Steve was so silly. RIP brother.

Only the good die young! If you want another great Steve Goodman song, listen to "City of New Orleans", recorded by Woody Guthrie and covered (greatly) by Willie Nelson.

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70's chicks were the best. Like 70's music...everything else is just a poor imitation.

I had to put iny Stetson while listening to this song.

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Wow! Didn't know he had passed. RIP

He wrote city of new orleans died of luekimia at 36... Born 1948 Died 1984

I keep thinking that maybe we'll hear new Steve Goodman and John Prine music being released on Heaven's radio.

for sure has a different energy than Coe does with this song, but still good entertainment!

He went full Jack Black on that solo!

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Guitar drop..... years before the mic drop.

Tribute song to John Prine for fans of John Prine by songwriter Dennis Callahan

I'm my own grandpa

I ordered a phone in the name of Gregor Samsa in Red Hook, Brooklyn ca. 1988. not long after his death. Next year I was Allen Ginsburgs research fellow (a kind of snitch of admin asst. bottom dollar for college profs. I still have a beautiful set of Steinbeck's works from the Library of America, and Allen gave me some hash even today in our somewhat enlightened chemical world was actually hallucinatory. NYNEX or NY Bell obliged with a certain gadget called a network interface in I believe March. Steevie was a good man,yuck,and told other stories about that song that Coe and Prine probably dont even know. Now that Prine has gone on to his reward (which should be large, dont you think?) I take out the old Brooklyn White Pages and look around for some things. . .

He's Cray

Not for me; and I have some of Steve's albums.

How the F do they always come from nothing?

I use to like this song before I knew who Steve Gooman was but now watching him shit on his on work is sad. I wish I had never looked into who he was.

Wow now I know where jack black copied his entire shtick from

I know he wrote this song but David Allen coes version is better

He died way way way too early ..

Keep writing! Don’t try to Sing them!

Get off the dope....

yuck

David Allan Coe did a lot of the heavy lifting to make this interesting. This guy got lucky.

He just can't sing

What a hat