I began writing songs in Virginia when I was 12 until hitchhiking one summer to California with only a $20 bill and a box guitar. In Hollywood, I attended several popular-style songwriting workshops while studying bass with various instrument teachers. After five years of songwriting workshops and playing bass in a variety of bands throughout the Los Angeles area, I relocated to Nashville. There I played bass and acoustic guitar in several local Nashville bands until performing in a traveling Holiday Inn Top 40 band across the Deep South and far Midwest nonstop for two years. Eventually, I'm back home in Richmond where I would rewrite and record the songs I had written during my lifetime after having performed them at open mic night shows throughout the Richmond area for the past 10 years. Ten Tales To Be Told is the first of three CDs of these songs. I consider my style contemporary folk. (Gordy Gordon, April 13, 2011)
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