Brad Goodall

West Virginia songwriter and piano bard Brad Goodall established himself as a vivid storyteller with his 2022 debut Made In America, which boasted uproariously satirical character studies of sad, desperate men in the songwriting vein of Randy Newman and Warren Zevon. Where that album unfolded like a collection of biting short stories, his latest, Hometown, plays out like an autobiography. Across nine audacious and personal songs, he trades humor for heart, sarcasm for earnestness, and solo-perfectionism for full-band collaboration.