Monday, November 17, 2025
Time: 6:05 PM
Song: Six Hours Ahead of the Sun
Artist: Steve Goodman
Mode of Consumption: Listening to vinyl album “Somebody Else’s Troubles” by Steve Goodman
Link to song: https://open.spotify.com/track/1hP9Le8T55KUBue9aoMi8V?si=7ceb8abb7f524732
Jodi points to the second man from the left on the album cover for “Somebody Else’s Troubles” by Steve Goodman.
“That’s John Prine,” she said.
“Hmm.”
It’s not surprising because I knew they were friends. I have heard Prine tell the story more than once that it was Goodman who brought Kris Kristofferson over to a club in Chicago to hear Prine play, I believe after the club had closed. A few days later, Prine had his first record deal.
The interesting part is that per the liner notes, it doesn’t appear that Prine played on any of the songs on this album.
It makes me wonder if he just happened to be hanging around the day they were shooting the picture and they told him to get in it.
“How did he die, again?” Jodi asks. “Was it cancer?”
“I think it might have been leukemia.” I say, although I couldn’t say that for sure.
According to the Google machine, Goodman died at the age of 36, having suffered from leukemia most of his adult life and then dying of complications from a bone marrow transplant in 1984.
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