Down to the Well(SH6049)
produced by Bo Ramsey, Joe McMahan and Kevin Gordon
recorded Fall 1999
released August 2000
Kevin’s second (and final) release for the Shanachie label is still perhaps his best known recording. The title track, a duet with Lucinda Williams, appeared on the Oxford American southern music sampler, and on the compilation “No Depression: What It Sounds Like, vol. 1”.
The song “Down to the Well” has been covered three times since Kevin’s original version was released: most recently by Hard Working Americans(featuring Todd Snider, Dave Schools from Widespread Panic, and others) Blackie and The Rodeo Kings (band featuring the song’s co-writer, Colin Linden), and on the Eric Brace and Peter Cooper duet record, “You Don’t Have to Like Us Both”.
“Promise Road” was later covered by the great Ronnie Hawkins; “Jimmy Reed” by Webb Wilder, and “Water or Gasoline” by Blackie and the Rodeo Kings. Before Kevin’s version appeared here, “Deuce and a Quarter” was covered by an amazing supergroup of rock legends (Keith Richards, Levon Helm, Rick Danko, Scotty Moore, D.J. Fontana, and others) on the tribute record, “All the King’s Men”.
Track 12, Kevin’s version of the traditional gospel song “Shoes”, appeared in the Billy Bob Thornton film, “The Badge”.
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Down to the Well CD (SH6049) produced by Bo Ramsey, Joe McMahan, & Kevin Gordon recorded Fall 1999 released August 2000 |