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Kevin Gordon

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About Me

born: shreveport louisiana, grew up along the I-20 corridor(shreveport, ruston, monroe). lived in iowa city 1987-92. iowa writers workshop mfa grad, '89. nashville since.the present tense:"Kevin Gordon's 'O Come Look At The Burning' may be the least classifiable of the [Nashville Underground] lot but perhaps the best, with a strange assortment of swamp rock, blues and literate lyrics."--Playboy, September 2006"An absolutely magnificent piece of work--stunning, really--from an under-recognized Nashville treasure"--Peter Cooper, The Tennessean, re: my current release, o come look at the burning; 12/25/05Buddy Miller talks about o Come Look at the Burning:"I love the record. I get transported to a beautiful, strange, familiar place. It's where the best music comes from. Deep and soulful. I can't take it off. It reminds me of why I love music...."
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songs i've written have been recorded by keith richards, levon helm, irma thomas, webb wilder, ronnie hawkins, sonny burgess, david zollo, blackie and the rodeo kings, southside johnny and the asbury jukes, kate campbell and pat gallagher. special guests on my records include lucinda williams (down to the well), charles "wigg" walker (flowers), kate campbell(dissatisfied), and my old friend bo ramsey.
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/12/2006
Band Website: kevingordon.net
Band Members:
Influences: leadbelly, jimmy reed, lou reed, X, ramones, the germs, son house, joe light, mary t. smith, jim sudduth, woody guthrie, the grifter, luke the drifter, muddy waters, slim harpo, dylan, neil young, keith richards, chuck berry, rosetta tharpe, robert johnson, robert petway, bo diddley, bo ramsey, joe price, kenny bill stinson, buddy flett, john berryman, james wright, tony joe white, fellini, scorcese, coppola, jarmusch, les blank, mance lipscomb, lightnin' hopkins, g.m. hopkins

Sounds Like: music
Record Label: crowville collective
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

back in the u.s.a.

Hello--just a short note here to let you know I got home from Belfast last night after some frantic O.J.-through-the-airport hustling in Atlanta, and wow, it's good to be back, though I really had a g...
Posted by Kevin Gordon on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 06:51:00 PST

he flies, he lands, he lives

Greetings from gray-silver Belfast--I'm sitting here in a starbucks(!), the only place I could find close by that has wireless. Free? Forget it. Doesn't matter, though--just feels good to finally be a...
Posted by Kevin Gordon on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 04:48:00 PST

Zen and the Art of Indoor Plumbing

I had a counseling session on Monday, and a large part of what was discussed dealt with the choice that one has, to let challenges send you down into the dark place ("sucked down into a dark whirlpool...
Posted by Kevin Gordon on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:00:00 PST

new songs on the player

Okay, so they're not exactly new--but maybe they're new to you. Down to the Well, as many of you know, is a duet with my old friend Lucinda Williams, and is the title track from the second record I ma...
Posted by Kevin Gordon on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 04:54:00 PST

the sound of music

I don't know what it is about playing live music that can be so confounding, or so damned "interesting" (a polite white-tablecloth word you'd use describing your occupation to a distant great aunt at ...
Posted by Kevin Gordon on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 01:52:00 PST

moving forward, looking back

Happy Thursday--a friend just sent me a link to this look back at the Cadillac Jack record. All I gotta say is, God bless Jim Musser . . .Cadillac Jack's 1 Son, RevisitedTakin' it to the people:I've s...
Posted by Kevin Gordon on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:42:00 PST

question(s), reader(s)

Greetings from gray, rain, and 30 some-odd degrees. Makes you think about Miami, Oahu, Uganda, Perth. Good day for indoor sports, like this here blogging thing. Speaking of which, I ask you, dear re...
Posted by Kevin Gordon on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:09:00 PST

this just in . . .

Just when you thought it was the 21st century . . .Segregationists march in Jena LA on MLK day
Posted by Kevin Gordon on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 02:20:00 PST

MLK Day

Bright, cold morning . . . rolling outta the sheets late on this Martin Luther King, Jr. holidayand it does feel like a holiday, as it should. Boo had the bedroom TV on this morning, watching Today ...
Posted by Kevin Gordon on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 09:47:00 PST

and . . .

In the midst of my soul-food induced coma, it occured to me that I have no real idea why I put the friends/"friends" thang in the previous post. Just know I didn't mean anything not-nice. Now, back ...
Posted by Kevin Gordon on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:20:00 PST