This Spring, the OA will focus on food.
Through fresh reporting, in-depth profiles, and daring personal essays, this issue will explore what we eat: people, industries, and tastes that both build and challenge our ideas of Southern food.
Kevin Gordon
About
A Louisiana native, now 20-year East Nashville resident, Kevin Gordon is a performing songwriter whose latest release, Tilt and Shine, was ranked #2 in Paste’s list of “Best Roots and Blues Albums of 2018.” The title track from his Down to the Well album, a duet with Lucinda Williams, was included on the Oxford American’s 5th Southern Music Issue sampler in 2001. Gordon’s songs have been recorded by Keith Richards, Levon Helm, Hard Working Americans (Todd Snider), Irma Thomas, Shemekia Copeland, and others. Kevin also holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop.