​Kevin Gordon (from the album The In Between

​Kevin Gordon (from the album The In Between

​Kevin Gordon (from the album The In Between available as a self-release)
Kevin Gordon celebrates and contemplates life’s ups and downs on his seventh album, The In Between. Having just completed chemotherapy for throat cancer, Gordon is able to see things from a new perspective. After the trauma and uncertainty of dealing with cancer, Gordon emerges more relaxed, focused, and forgiving. He has learned not to sweat the small stuff and to let go of the pains of the past, so that he may more fully enjoy the present.
“Simple Things” reflects Gordon’s new outlook. A Tom Petty-esque jangle-Rocker, the song blends electric guitar, pedal steel, and driving drums to capture the feel of a sun drenched, top-down, joyride. Focusing on life’s little moments Gordon sings ‘I’d give anything to hear your laugh again’. Dreaming of other simple pleasures, he recalls Texas sun, Louisiana rain, holding hands, and catching a live band at the local bar. None of these things are life changing moments; but taken together, they are the moments that make a life worth living.
“Catch a Ride” takes a Bluesier tone but shares the same carpe-diem message with a rockin’ backbeat. “Coming Up” is a heartland Rocker that recounts Gordon’s life journey, beginning with ‘the first time I touched that guitar in a rusty shed out on Womack’s farm’. “Destiny” adds a Power Pop edge as he dives head first into his future, even as he wonders ‘what the hell I’m doing’. Kevin Gordon taps into the high energy roots rock of Dave Edmunds on “Love Right”. Joyfully summing up his new outlook on life, he releases his attachment to material things and focuses his attention on giving love. Referring to his wife of 30 years, he sings, ‘we’re still keeping on, trying to get our love right. Catch a glimpse on a lucky day. Learning each other’s way’. It may be a quest without end, but learning to love is the true reason we’re all here.
Learning to love fully, also means loving those different from us, and even those who have hurt us. On the tender ballad, “Marion”, a gay man, waiting tables in Louisiana in the 80’s, is given a long overdue memorial. The lilting Cajun ballad “Tammy Cecile” remembers, forgives, and wishes blessings for a former lover. “You Can’t Hurt Me No More” is a declaration of self-love and freedom from those who have hurt us in the past. Although ostensibly about a woman, the song carries greater gravitas in light of Gordon’s recent fight against cancer. The cosmic cowboy ballad via The In Between title track reflects on how his perspectives have changed since cancer. Talking about the time between gigs, the time between marriage and children, and the time between children and empty nest, Gordon notes that the only constant is change. From the time we enter this world ‘just being born burns off your wings. And when it’s over we return from whence we came. This thing we call life is the In Between’. It may be short, it may have its share of trials, but it’s also filled with moments of joy. Kevin Gordon offers us a chance to pause and savor the simple pleasures of music, friends, and love. (by Brian Rock)
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