Goose Debut “Your Direction” in Jazz Fest Headline Set, Release ‘Everything Must Go’ and Join Newport Folk Festival Lineup
Photo Credit: Stevo Rood
It’s a big day for Goose. After months of mounting anticipation, the rapidly rising indie-jam quartet have released Everything Must Go, their fourth studio album and first since 2022’s Dripfield. To mark the long-awaited occasion, the band touched down in The Big Easy last night for their New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival debut. This landmark set, headlining the Shell Gentilly Stage, was a two-hour blast through the highlights of their decade-long discography, featuring two setting-appropriate covers and a live debut.
Goose set off their Jazz Fest stage-closing set with the steady groove of “Madhuvan,” a ten-year essential that’s grown into a high-spirited jam vehicle with the group’s genre-bending ambition and improvisational prowess. From this strong start, the more mellow, narratively focused “Hot Love & The Lazy Poet” followed, which has quickly become a setlist staple. After “Silver Rising,” the band poured themselves into a far-out, shapeshifting “Hungersite” that gave way to their first-ever live performance of the recent Everything Must Go single “Your Direction,” followed by “Thatch,” a now three-year-old cut also featured on the new album.
The quartet shifted gears as they set into their first cover of the evening, Tom Waits’ chilling Blue Valentine ballad “Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis.” While Goose’s version has been familiar to fans in largely acoustic settings, and was recorded for Orebolo’s 2024 album The Chateau, Thursday’s performance definitely defied expectations for a festival set from the generally high-energy band. This slowed pulse made the ensuing, moody Everything Must Go single “Give It Time” all the more affecting, launching a nuanced and contemplative sweep through “So Ready” and their well-traveled cover of Nina Simone’s fiery “Sinnerman” before the set-closing classic “Arcadia.”
Goose will return to the stage next for their long-awaited Viva El Gonzo concert getaway from May 8-10. Afterwards, they’ll bolt into a packed summer tour, including a performance at Newport Folk Festival announced yesterday. For tickets and more information on Goose’s full tour itinerary, visit goosetheband.com.
Read on for the full setlist from Thursday night.
Goose
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival – New Orleans
4/24/25
Set: Madhuvan, Hot Love & The Lazy Poet, Silver Rising, Hungersite > Your Direction* > Thatch, Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis+, Give it Time, So Ready, Sinnerman^, Arcadia
Notes:
* FTP as Goose.
+ Tom Waits.
^ Nina Simone.
