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Music enthusiasts looking for a
live performance need not look fur
ther than Northgate.
Every Sunday, Tuesday and
Thursday night, the Crooked Path
comes alive with local performer J.
Goodin.
Goodin’s show consists of clas
sic rock covers, folk music, and
modern favorites. The audience
also gets to peer into this gifted
I singer’s mind by listening to his
original songs.
Great music makes for a good
| show, but Goodin’s shows are en
tertaining because of the way he in-
| teracts with the audience. Goodin
does not spend the evening per
forming for his audience — he
spends the night having fun with
his friends.
He usually starts his shows by
making an observation, such as last
Thursday’s ‘*It's gonna be a drinkin’
night.” The observation ended with
Goodin and his audience raising
their glasses and shouting, “salud.”
“Salud” is a common thing, oc-
curing after almost every other
. song. Thursday, 30 “saluds” were
counted, give or take a few.
Goodin takes requests during the
show. There is no formal set list for
the show, but some songs do require
an incentive to be played.
“If you want to hear Dave
Matthews, you have to talk to my
manager,” Goodin said, holding up
the plastic tip bucket.
Tipping is a very important part
of Goodin’s show.
He said audience members tip by
buying him drinks, dropping ciga
rettes in the bucket.or throwing in a
few bucks.
If audience members happen to
drop a $5 bill into the bucket, they
receive a copy of Goodin’s original
CD. Symptom Addict. The CD con
sists of seven original tracks, three
of which can be downloaded
from his Website,
Goodin said the CD is “based on
loving and losing on Northgate, but
mostly losing.”
Tipping decides what song is
playetl hist. Thursday's show closed
with last call by the bartenders and
bidding for the last song.
Bidding for the last song is a
Goodin ritual, tind this race was be
tween Don MeClean’s “American
Pie” and anything else. The bidding
is done by people placing tips i n the
bucket with Goodin keeping track
of which request has raised the most
money.
“American Pie” won with more
than $20 in bids.
The regulars at Goodin’s show
always sit front and center. He
refers to them as “the band”
and joins them when he
takes his “five
minute smoke
break.” These breaks usually last
longer than five minutes, but no one
in the audience seems to mind, in
cluding Goodin, who converses
with his friends. Everyone in “the
band” knows every song Goodin
plays and sings along through the
entire show.
Of the songs he plays, two stand
out for their audience involvement:
Shel Silverstein’s "Freaker’s Ball,”
and an original written by Goodin’s
friend Beatnik called “Passion.”
These songs start amid applause
from the audience, and everyone
who knows the songs sings along.
Goodin attributes his musical
talent to his upbringing. He said his
parents were traveling sign painters.
and he moved around quite a bins
a child.
“All I had was a radio as
friend,” he said.
Goodin said his favorite singi
to cover are Tom Waits Jim Crocl
Ben Harper and Elvis Costello,
said he gets the most requests foi
Tool, Alice in Chains and Waits.
“I'm happy [about being asked
to play the Waits),” he said. Tvi
tried to school this town.”
Goodin said his favorite partoi
playing at the Crooked Path is tin
laid-back atmosphere.
“Everyone is there to drink,re
lax and have a good time,” he said
"It's a party atmosphere.”
In fact. Bill Phillips, a seniot
computer science major, enjoys the
show so much he tries to attendafi
three shows each week.
"I'm a country fanatic, but),’!
gotta be one of the best singers Fve
ever heard,” Phillips said.
Phillips said he thinks Good
in could make more money in
another town, but Goodin
said he likes Bryan-Col-
ege Station.
“I like playing a town
that pays the rent," he said.
Heather LaMotte, a senior
marketing major, said sheen-
joys the show because of Good
in’s singing abilities.
“He has a great voice, and I love
acoustic guitar,” LaMotte said. “I
love to just sit and listen to liims
forget about everything.”
Goodin said he originally set out
the guitar to back himself up.
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