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Anna Goodman
Anna Goodman is credited on 49 releases across 22 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1991–2019 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
49
Pressings credited
22
Albums
3
Decades active
118
In collections
Biography
Anna Harris Goodman is an American songwriter who was married to Ben Folds from 1987 to 1992. She was best friends with Folds since they were schoolchildren, and encouraged him to play piano at a young age. She was the manager of his band Majosha in the late 1980s and early 1990s. They were married at a young age in their early 20s, and often collaborated on songwriting. She co-wrote several Ben Folds Five songs including: "Alice Childress" (Ben Folds Five) "The Last Polka" (Ben Folds Five) "Kate" (Whatever and Ever Amen) "Smoke" (Whatever and Ever Amen) "Lullabye" (The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner) Goodman was also a long-time member of Sin-é Cafe's resident band Porkchop, which was composed of Beavis and Butt-Head directors and producers, Mike de Sève and Brian Mulroney; Ryan Adams guitarist J. P. Bowersock; Dale Burleyson; Gaijin a Go-Go's Phil Maynes; Brad Brown and Chris LaFrenz.
Bio from Wikipedia
Credited work
49 releases · 22 albums · active 1991–2019
- Performance · 77
- Other credits · 1
Studios: WaveCastle Studios · Ziggy's · Harold Dessau Recording · Big Plate
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Ben Folds Five
- Various
- Ben Folds
- Simon And Milo
- Prozzäk
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