Music · Americana · San Antonio, Texas
The Music.
I write Americana songs in San Antonio and play them out, sometimes solo, sometimes with the full band, Julie Good and A Dog Named Mike. Music and strategy ask the same questions. What holds attention. What deepens meaning. What keeps a person in the room long enough for it to matter.
Julie Good and A Dog Named Mike · Coffee Conversations, the debut album
Coffee Conversations
The debut album
2001
Recorded and released
20+
Streaming platforms
01 · The Record
Coffee Conversations.
Best served black, no algorithm.
The debut album, recorded in 2000 and released on March 13, 2001. One record, built to last past the room it was written in. They came out of paying attention: personal experience, Texas landscapes, and the kind of conversations that happen when people sit down with coffee and tell each other the truth.
I produced it the way I build everything else. Every track serves the whole, every arrangement supports the lyric, and the record rewards close listening. It is on every major platform, so press play wherever you already live.
Coffee Conversations · record notes
- Fish & Bird
- Good Conversation
- Cibilo Smoke Tree
- Colorado Wind
- Bad Idea
- Look In Your Eyes Tonight
- Love Forgives Us
- Remember Me
- My Friend (Nebraska)
Spotify · Julie Good artist page
Also on record: I sing on the 2014 single “It’s Christmas Time” (Peterson Entertainment, San Antonio), recorded with Phillip Luna, Noah Peterson, and Sam Villela.
02 · The Band
Julie Good and A Dog Named Mike.
An Americana band rooted in San Antonio, living where country, folk, and Americana meet. The lyrics treat everyday life as worthy of the same careful attention I give organizational systems, because it is. We play most months at home and travel when the right room and the right timing line up.
The Full Band
The full band, one experience.
Every performance is a systems event: the venue, the audience, the sound, the songs, and the moment all interacting as components of a single experience. The full band brings original songwriting to venues, festivals, and the rooms in between.
Meet The Band →Solo
Sometimes just Julie Good.
Some rooms call for the smaller footprint. The solo set carries the same songs and the same standard, scaled to listening rooms, restaurants, and private events where one voice serves the space better than a full band.
Book A Solo Set →03 · Live
The room matters.
Live performance has always been more than entertainment to me. A good room changes how people listen, how they gather, and how culture moves through a city. That holds whether the room is a venue, a restaurant, a listening room, or a neighborhood stage. I care about the music, and I care just as much about the spaces that make it possible and the communities those spaces sustain.
Live Dates
The calendar.
Upcoming shows, venue details, and the current run all live on the live events page.
See Live Dates →The Room
The Dakota.
One of the rooms most closely connected to this live performance story and the community around the music.
About The Dakota →For Venues
The press kit.
Photos, bio, and the materials a venue or festival needs to put the band on a bill.
Download The Press Kit →Performing keeps me close to the human side of all of this. Audience, pacing, trust, atmosphere, repetition, surprise, memory. The room teaches you things the deck never can.
04 · Songwriting
Where the songs come from.
All good work comes from the same place: paying attention. A good song and a good system both need structure, pacing, and emotional truth. The difference is that a song gets no onboarding. It has to earn the room on its own.
So the songwriting is built on three things, and the strategy work borrows from all of them.
01
Story
Lyrics that treat everyday life as worth telling the truth about, the way the best conversations do.
02
Presence
A song happens in a room, with people in it. Writing for that moment, not for the feed.
03
Musicianship
Arrangements that support the lyric and reward close listening. Every track serves the whole.
05 · Booking
Book the band. Feed the band.
The rest takes care of itself. Full band as Julie Good and A Dog Named Mike, or solo as Julie Good, for venues, festivals, restaurants, theaters, private events, and corporate functions across San Antonio and beyond. Send the event date, the venue details, and any specific requirements, and we will respond with availability and pricing.
Tech rider, run time, and lineup are confirmed at booking. General questions go through the contact page.
Photo Gallery
On stage, and long before it.
Choir rooms and musical theater, a plastic guitar before a real one, and decades of live performance since. Run of the same instinct that runs through everything else I build.
Heard everywhere
Distributed through CD Baby to:
Coffee Conversations went out across CD Baby’s global network. The same record, ready on the platforms people actually use, in the United States and abroad.
Spotify
Apple Music
iTunes
YouTube Music
YouTube
Pandora
TIDAL
Deezer
iHeartRadio
Napster
SoundCloud
Bandcamp
TikTok
Shazam
Audiomack
LINE Music
NetEase Cloud Music
Peloton
20+ platforms, across CD Baby’s distribution network.
Record, rooms, and reach
The record is the argument.
I made Coffee Conversations as a finished record with Julie Good and A Dog Named Mike, an Americana band rooted in San Antonio. I still care about the whole object: the voice, the room, the players, the release, and the stubborn little miracle of making a thing public.
2000
Recorded
2001
Released March 13
20+
Streaming platforms
Full
Americana band
Booking shape
I size the set to the room.
The useful question is not volume. It is attention. A room tells you whether it wants the full band, a close solo set, or an evening built like a conversation.
Full rooms
Full-band Americana for stages, rooms, and community events where the music should arrive with muscle and warmth.
Close rooms
Solo sets for rooms that reward language, pacing, and the kind of quiet that makes a lyric work harder.
Story sets
Song-centered sets with enough context to make the evening feel human, not annotated.
Private rooms
Careful music for gatherings that need presence, judgment, and a musician who can read the room.
Fish & Bird, Good Conversation, Cibilo Smoke Tree, Colorado Wind. I listen for lift, conversation, place, and weather. The record works because the songs do not all ask for the same light.
Bad Idea, Look In Your Eyes Tonight, Love Forgives Us. Humor and tenderness are not opposites. They are often the same instrument played with different pressure.
Remember Me, My Friend (Nebraska). A record should know how to leave the room. These are not decorative closers. They are the last turn of the handle.
Press & Print
In print.
Peer-reviewed publication · 2014
Participatory Media and Culture: The Spirit of the Human
Co-authored with Deb Balzhiser and Caroline E. Jones. Technoculture: An Online Journal of Technology in Society, Vol. 4.
Performance press and event coverage available on request.
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