Kevin Gordon Trio
When:
Friday, Jun 16, 2023 7:00p -
9:30p
Friday, Jun 16, 2023 7:00p -
9:30p
Where:
The Fallout Shelter
61 Endicott Street, Bldg #23, Unit B
Norwood, MA 02062
Admission:
$35
Hosted by:
Categories:
Art, Music, Shows
Event website:
https://grcpac.yapsody.com/event/index/768531/kevin-gordon-trio
Kevin Gordon’s Louisiana is a strange place. It’s a place where restless teens road trip to where the highway dead-ends at the Gulf of Mexico; a place where prisoners who are in for life compete in a rodeo while the town watches; where a character can get lost in the humid afternoon and where religion may not signify hope; and where rivers, never far away, carry secrets behind levees. “One of the things I like about it and am mystified by is that what passes for normal in Louisiana would not make the grade elsewhere,” he says. It’s a place that he’s been exploring through his songs for twenty years now, on the eve of the release of his astonishing new album “Tilt And Shine” on Crowville Media.
Before even hearing his vivid lyrics, the feeling of that ’56 Gibson ES-125 tuned down to open D fills the room, often with the tremolo flowing like a river, and an unstoppable groove distilled from swamp blues and Sun Records. His MFA from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop allows him to capture the stories of his past and upbringing with a degree of precision. As the New York Times put it in its headline of a feature on Kevin, “A Musician Or A Poet? Yes to Both.” Kevin sums it up, “There are so many stories in north Louisiana and it’s a place that nobody pays attention to. For me, you can feel the arc of time passing there. I’m captivated by the power of strong memories—those films that run continuously in your mind, if you let ‘em.” Kevin Gordon will be joined by Josh Hunt on drums and Ron Eoff on bass to round out the trio.
