The Night Steve Goodman Wrote Me A Song

I got such a great response from my Clarence Clemons blog posting,  I thought I might share another brush with greatness.

One of my favorite song writers is the late Steve Goodman, composer of The City of New Orleans,  You Never Even Call Me By My Name, and lots of other memorable tunes from the 1970’s and 1980’s.

I got to work with him once before his death, when he performed with John Prine at Virginia Tech.  Steve began his show and was about half way through the set when I started hearing a high pitched buzzing, sort of like a mosquito, that seemed to cycle on and off.  It got progressively louder and more prominent and I pretty quickly realized that I was facing the sound man’s nightmare of a complete console failure.

The crew scrambled to come up with a fix, and, rather than take a break and let us troubleshoot, Goodman continued his show,  leading the audience in a chorus of a song he wrote on the spot.

The name of the tune?  You Better Fix It Mr. Soundman!

He never shared any of his royalty checks.

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