a rotating cast of seasoned miscreants and eccentric omnivores
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
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; 12/25/05
Buddy 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...."
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.
That does sound like an exciting career... I'll support you. The flooding has begun... your downstream, so please save yourself and family from our nitrate run off. Smiles…
I wanted to tell you i am sorry about your creepy event. Wow.. you are so lucky.Thoe worst flew over you... Someone was looking out for you. I am glad you lived to tell us about it... must mean your in for creating some really sweet music in the future. Keep your chin up, peace melinda
Hey Kevin, Reagan turned me on to your stuff. Really dig Casino Road! Great voice friend. Come on over and bring some friends and party with Range War.
Glad to see your doing well:-) lol... I wanted to stop in and say i'm sorry i missed you in Iowa City. I missed you by one day:-P..i couldn't believe it! Oh well...maybe next time. Take care. melinda
Meet Eugene Walter. Born in 1921 in Mobile, died there three-quarters of a century later. He was, he said, "just something that got loose from Alabama," a "student of human endeavors on this busy planet," member of "a union called international cats and monkeys." "Polysexual" by inclination, he believed that "the very best sex is to be in a phone booth, naked, with a lot of butterflies." He traveled with "only the bare essentials: my Remington typewriter, my stuffed monkey in a bell jar, and a box of gold paper stars to sprinkle on the stairways of my apartment building." He was the sole inhabitant of Planet Eugene: "And once I was on a bus with Dame Edith Sitwell. We were the only two people on a Sixth Avenue bus in a snowstorm. I had been downtown shopping for castanets. That's the story of my life: out shopping for castanets in a snowstorm."
man of song...making my heart smile.YOu were fabulous last night at Blind Willie's and i am hungover from the sweet soul pouring from ya! Glad to see you are in Key wEst tell them Vallery says Hello! You are a true gem!
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