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It's pretty good. It's not up to the standards of Affordable Art or Somebody Else's Troubles but it's a good, solid piece of work. It's also the album he had just finished up before going in for the bone marrow transplant that he didn't survive. It was released in the week after he died. Not because he died; that just happened to be the release date.

The fact that he was declining so rapidly at that point and could still put that out is amazing to me. You would not know listening to it that anything was wrong.

There was an album put out afterward called Unfinished Business that sounds much more like its title might indicate - that is it is a bunch of songs that they had hanging out and while good they don't hold together as well as Santa Ana Winds does.

Amazingly they still manage to release good new (to anyone other than his management) Goodman material every so often. Such things as The Easter Tapes a great little live radio show. The Steve Goodman Anthology isn't a bad place to start either.

I do have to get the live DVD. I never did get to see him live in person but saw several of the shows the DVD borrows from when they were on PBS. He was an amazing performer. His guitar playing is all the more amazing because he had stubby little hands much like I do. There are things he shouldn't have been able to do. Actually he was told he would never be able to do that which was just the thing to say to him - he loved proving people wrong.