O Come Look at the Burning (Dig)

Kevin Gordon | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 4, 2005)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Crowville Collective
• ASIN: B000B5KRLG
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #171,157 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Watching the Sun Go Down

2. Find My Way

3. Greenwood Girls

4. Casino Road

5. Joe Light

6. Diamonds

7. Something Heavy

8. Make It Good

9. Flowers

10. Calhoun

11. Crazy Mixed-Up World

12. Heart's Not in It

Editorial Reviews

2005 release; 12 tracks including "Watching the Sun Go Down", "Flowers", and "Greenwood Girls". "I love the record. I get transported to a beautiful, strange, familiar place. It's where the best music comes from. Deep and soulful. I can't take it off. It reminds me of why i love music...."-Buddy Miller

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Impulsiveness and capriciousness characterize his life, October 25, 2005

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J. Ross "a-music_fan" (Roseburg, OR USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: O Come Look at the Burning (Dig) (Audio CD)

Playing Time - 50:31 -- His first album in five years (since "Down to the Well"), Louisiana native Kevin Gordon just up and felt the musical urge to get back in the studio. Recorded live in a home studio in east Nashville, the band's music captures the same impulsiveness and capriciousness that characterizes his life. His shows can often have the same great power and passion.

"O Come Look at the Burning" has a raw and raucous personality. There are ten new original songs, and all lyrics are included in the CD jacket. Charles "Wigg" Walker, an early 1960s Nashville R & B star, appears as a guest vocalist on "Flowers." The band's rhythmic foundation is built around guitars, bass, drums and Hammond organ. On a few pieces with R&B influence, it might have been very interesting to consider some saxophone in the mix. Gordon covers Eddie Hinton`s "Something Heavy" and Willie Dixon`s "Crazy Mixed-Up World" (originally recorded in 1959 by Little Walter). The former may be the best statement about Kevin Gordon's perspective on life, sanity, and need for something heavy to keep moving in the right direction. His original music on "O Come Look at the Burning" is a bit abstract too. It's a little mysterious, but the essence of the singer/songwriter's music shows an ardent appreciation for colliding and conflicting forces. In his on-line blog, Gordon makes reference to similarities in the rodeo arena: "God and country, sin and redemption, man and animal." (Joe Ross, Roseburg, OR.)

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars He's back, October 4, 2005

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Bt "Cat." (Parts unknown) - See all my reviews

This review is from: O Come Look at the Burning (Dig) (Audio CD)

Five years since Kevin's last release is too long a wait for this excellent roots rocker. Ever since his debut "Carnival Time" (...)never made a disc anything less than great. This beauty kicks off where his last album left off. No filler, just great songwritng, and greasy guitar work that makes you wanna drop everything, slug down a bottle of bourbon, and rock out!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome, October 25, 2005

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DaveG "Dave" (Woodstock, GA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: O Come Look at the Burning (Dig) (Audio CD)

Kevin is a literary alchemist who is able to conjure up unforgettable images with his lyrics. On top of those lyrics he layers stunningly sharp guitar work that belies his label as "singer/songwriter". If you like bluesy roots-rock with the emphasis on rock you will love this CD. I have not been able to get it out of my CD player since it arrived in the mail.