John-Robert / Gabe Goodman

Name: John-Robert / Gabe Goodman
Start: 2024-11-08T19:00:00-05:00
Location: 939 Boylston St, Boston, MA, United States, Massachusetts 02115

Schedule

Fri Nov 08 2024 at 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

939 Boylston St, Boston, MA, United States, Massachusetts 02115 | Boston, MA

When John-Robert left his Edinburg, Virginia, hometown for Los Angeles in 2019, he did so with starry-eyed ambition – a teenage songsmith bypassing a Berklee scholarship to chase his musical manifest destiny. It quickly materialized: Grammy-nominated producer Ricky Reed (Leon Bridges, Lizzo) signed him at age 19 to Nice Life/Warner Records, helping integrate John-Robert’s lilting blend of traditional folk and Appalachian country into the modern pop landscape.
His debut single, 2019’s “Adeline,” has become an 11-million streamer. Collaborations and co-signs from the likes of Alessia Cara and Camilla Cabello, respectively, have further cemented him as a deeply auspicious writer on releases like 2020’s Bailey Barely Knew Me and 2021’s Healthy Baby Boy, Pt. 1. Now, on his new EP, Garden Snake, the artist hailed as “a small-town teen poised to become the next big singer-songwriter” by Live Nation’s Ones To Watch explores the pull of his past in a captivating five-song collection, bursting with the grassroots musicality of his Shenandoah Valley birthplace and the homespun purity of his earliest songwriting endeavors.
Gabe Goodman is a producer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist based in Los Angeles. Originally hailing from the suburbs of Boston, he got his first guitar at five years old and immediately began writing songs and participating in the local Guitarmageddon contests at Guitar Center (he never advanced past the entry round). He was even a guest on Bill Cosby’s Kids Say The Darndest Things, performing some of his original work that Cosby himself refers to as “volcanic.”
Goodman’s compass always seemed to point towards the arts. His mom would take shifts off of her job at Old Navy to take him to auditions in New York City, determined for him to find success as a child actor. After playing in bands in high school, he eventually left Brandeis University at age 20 to join 2010s synth-pop act Magic Man, walking out in the middle of a financial accounting final to embark on a summer tour supporting Panic! At the Disco—a sort of Jewish, early-Instagram-era twist on an Almost Famous-style tale. He would eventually move to New York, where he began releasing solo music in 2018 with his somber Dismissing the Gardener, and began working with longtime friend S. Holden Jaffe on his Del Water Gap project. Together, the pair wrote and produced “Ode To A Conversation Stuck In Your Throat,” which became a pandemic-era breakout hit. It was through his work with Del Water Gap that Goodman began to eye a career in production, going on to work with acts such as Maggie Rogers and helming projects for indie darlings such as Field Medic and Anjimile.
Though his production and songwriting work has spanned genres, when Goodman returns to his solo work he retains a unique and vulnerable style. Much of his songs directly address complicated family dynamics—watching his father’s car get repossessed on 2021’s “Grand Caravan,” or grappling with his mother’s growing dementia on notable single “The Villain.” But on his debut album The Rock, due out this summer, Goodman aims to reflect on how those moments impact one’s adult relationships.