Roxy redux

Don't count Gordon out quite yet, though: He has plans to perform at South by Southwest this March as part of "some kind of Indian deal"; he and McGhee are discussing getting together sometime this year to lay down some more basic tracks that McGhee would take back to England and dress up with additional instrumentation a la Smaller Circles.

Gordon wants to take the title of his next work from two interactions he had not long after moving out to West Texas. "One of my buddies told me that the cops might not like me because I'm an older guy with long hair," Gordon recalls with a chuckle. "Then these two sisters--they're part of that Lubbock gang that hangs out with Joe Ely and all them--they told me I was dirty and mean." Hence the possible title of the upcoming work: An Older Guy with Long Hair, Dirty and Mean. He also plans on coming to the metroplex sometime in June to play a few gigs, although nothing is confirmed right now.

Smaller Circles has an American distributor--San Francisco-based Bayside Distribution (916-371-2800). Meanwhile, Gordon tends to his mother and grandmother, writes a regular column for the county newspaper, and plans for the future.

"I think that I'm getting ready to start raising chickens," Gordon says. "I don't eat them, you know," he says, pausing. "But I think I'll do it anyway.