Kevin brings his truth and groove-soaked portraits of Southern Culture back to Iowa City, playing at the Black Angel, just across the street from his old apartment from his days at the Writer's Workshop.

“Dude’s a juke-joint professor emeritus”–Rolling Stone

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.

Before you even hear his vivid lyrics, you start feeling the sound of that ’56 Gibson ES-125 tuned down to open D, often with the tremolo flowing like a river, and anunstoppable groove distilled from swamp blues and Sun Records. His MFA from theUniversity of Iowa Writers’ Workshop allows him to capture it 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.”

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