Though the boundaries between indie aesthetics and mainstream success have blurred significantly this millennium, S.G. Goodman stakes out a shrewdly oppositional position in the rural-accented indie rock of her debut album, Old Time Feeling. Hailing from small-town Kentucky, she sought production input from her home state’s most experimental rock architect, Jim James, and recorded with her long-time local bandmates, capturing an instrumental attack that ranges from riotous to delicate, above which she sings in an artful, serrated warble. She has a way with both pining melancholy (see: "If It Ain't Me Babe" and "Red Bird Morning") and class-conscious yet tradition-flouting dual defiance, as showcased in the clever and compelling way she simultaneously challenges outside condescension and regional resistance to change in the title track and "The Way I Talk".