Gordon Vincent Lyrics

Gordon Vincent grew up in the shadows of the oil refinery smokestacks in northern New Jersey. He taught himself how to play guitar using fishing line on a neighbors homemade project guitar and was developed a passion for writing songs before he was a teenager. Working odd jobs to survive, his experience became a melting pot of hardcore blue collar roots and advocacy for the underdog, modern american fiction, and an eclectic taste in music that could smoothly transition from Sinatra to Zeppelin to Band of Horses.On the strength of YOU SHOULD KNOW (2004), he was named a top independent artist in the United States by BILLBOARD MAGAZINE. The follow-up, RINGER (2006) was an intimate one-take portrait of a songwriter.His latest, CONFESS... read more