Somebody Else's Troubles is an album by singer/songwriter Steve Goodman, released in 1972. The record received favorable reviews but failed to sell. Goodman soon left Buddah Records and signed with Elektra Records.[1] Bob Dylan contributes piano on the title song under the pseudonym of Robert Milkwood Thomas. John Prine is standing second person from left to right.[2] Jimmy Buffett is standing between Prine and Goodman's wife Nancy. In 1990, the album was released on CD by Sequel Records.[3]
The album was reissued in 1999 with two additional tracks.
Ian Dove of the New York Times wrote, "Mr. Goodman has been allowed to bring all his influences into the album, and as a result we get a fully rounded portrait of the artist. It is a deceptively casual album—'laid back' in the argot—recorded in Nashville and New York, but which has much strength and realism in its simplicity... Mr. Goodman's accompaniment is also kept simple and direct."[2]Robert Christgau assigned it a "B" rating, indicating "...two consecutive songs about racing the sun, which is at least one too many. Tour de force: an a cappella ballad about a Vietnam widow. Arif Mardin found the proper setting for his young man's quaver."[5] John Baudie in Q Magazine called the album "more assured [and] runs through the whole gamut of Goodman's range".[3]
In reviewing the 1999 reissue, Allmusic critic Sharon Witmer wrote "This recording presents a good overview of the prodigious talent and gifts that Steve Goodman gave the music world."[4]
