Title - The In Between
Artist - Kevin Gordon
Nashville singer-songwriter and poet Kevin Gordon has announced his new album The In Between (Crowville Media) will be released on September 13th, 2024.
Produced by Joe V. McMahan (Justin Townes Earle), it’s his first full-length album since 2018’s Tilt & Shine and his songs have been recorded by Keith Richards, Levon Helm, Hard Working Americans, Irma Thomas, and others.
With the announcement, Gordon has shared the lead single and album opener “Simple Things,” which was mixed by five-time Grammy Award winner Tchad Blake (Bonnie Raitt, Elvis Costello, Los Lobos, Al Green, The Pretenders, Tom Waits).
The track was written about the energy of live performance, but while recording it, Gordon was diagnosed with throat cancer between two recording sessions.
The sessions had to go on indefinite pause while Gordon underwent radiation and chemotherapy.It took the better part of a year for doctors to certify Kevin as cancer-free. The return to vocals felt that much sweeter for Gordon and it shows here on this brilliant new album.
1.
Simple Things
2.
Keeping My Brother Down
3.
The In Between
4.
Love Right
5.
Tammy Cecile
6.
Coming Up
7.
Destiny
8.
Marion
9.
Catch a Ride
10.
You Can’t Hurt Me No More
The Louisiana native opens his new recording on the rambunctiously melodic Simple Things and that is backed by the low slung blues rocker Keeping My Brother Down, an aching, lonesome yearn that drives the titular The In Between is then brought forth, and then we get both the rhythmically frenetic Love Right and the countrified twang of the mid-tempo ballad Tammy Cecile.
Along next is the foot stomper Coming Up and the enthusiastically-sculpted guitar rock of Destiny and they are in turn followed by the languishing ballad Marion, the album rounding out on the free-wheeling rocker Catch a Ride, coming to an all-too-soon close on the leisurely You Can’t Hurt Me No More.
“Simple Things” [Official Music Video]
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