Nashville singer/songwriter and poet Kevin Gordon has announced that his new album The In Between (Crowville Media) will be released on September 13, 2024. Produced by Joe V. McMahan (Justin Townes Earle), the album is his first full-length since 2018’s Tilt & Shine. Like his previous album, The In Between tours the darker sides of The South.

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.

He says:

I knew something was up when the first scan results came back; I drove straight to New Orleans and stayed pretty much out of my mind for three days. I was terrified, and thought I would lose it completely if I sat in my house staring at the wall any longer. They were using words like malignant, which scared the hell out of me. Those second tracking sessions were more emotional for me, personally.

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.

Of the themes on The In Between, Kevin says:

The older I get, the more I’m thinking about what my friend Kenny Stinson called ‘all that old southern shit.’

Gordon has dueted with Lucinda Williams on his recording of “Down To the Well, and his songs have been covered by Keith Richards, Irma Thomas, Levon Helm, and Todd Snider (in Hard Working Americans). 

Tour Dates:

July 19: Berwyn, IL – Fitzgerald’s

July 21: Madison, WI – Kiki’s House of Righteous Music

September 26: Charlotte, NC – River Jam 2024