Tyler Childers and Senora May Join S.G. Goodman on Deluxe ‘Planting By The Signs’ Edition

S.G. Goodman has returned to Planting By The Signs with a deluxe edition that treats the original album less like a finished statement than a living thing. The Kentucky alt-country songwriter’s 2025 record already carried its own logic in the title, a nod to farming and the practice behind “moon planting,” and she has folded that same idea into the new version’s title as well: (Re) Planting By The Signs.

The release plays with the usual deluxe-album formula in ways that are a little stranger than standard bonus-track housekeeping. There are five additions in all, but one of them, “Heaven Sold,” has been placed at the very start of the record, before the original sequence begins. The rest arrive at the end, where bonus material usually lands. Among them is a more forceful “redux” of the previously sparse and mournful album track “Heat Lightning,” along with Goodman’s recent cover of the Butthole Surfers’ “Pepper.” A Dan Reeder cover of Goodman’s “I’m In Love” is included too, and the whole thing closes with Tyler Childers and Senora May taking on the title track, “Planting By The Signs.”

Goodman framed that collaboration as part personal history, part regional kinship. In her statement, she noted that Senora May was “one of the first people” she spoke with about building an album around the beliefs behind “Planting by the signs,” and pointed out that May’s father, who farms, has followed the old practice her whole life. She also underscored how tightly the song’s imagery and origin are tied together, writing that the title track folds the philosophy of “Moon Planting” into a love song narrative. “Who better than Tyler and Senora Childers to join on a song written about the alignment of the stars in the very cabin that brought them together?” she wrote.

For Goodman, the significance of the track seems to extend beyond the novelty of hearing Childers and May together. She said that, to her knowledge, it was the first time the two had recorded a song as a pair, and added, “To say I am honored is a disservice to the feeling held.” She also noted that both Childers agreed to donate the proceeds from the track to her local NPR affiliate, WKMS, in support of the station’s weather updates, national and local news, and local music promotion. “In Kentucky neighborly fashion, from the east to the west, we joined to support our neighbors,” she wrote, citing services all three artists have benefited from.

(Re) Planting By The Signs is out now via Slough Water/Thirty Tigers.