Gordon Lockwood

Jeremiah Lockwood and Ricky Gordon have been making music together for over two decades, originally as disciples of Piedmont Blues legend Carolina Slim. For their first post-pandemic live shows they have begun a new duo to share the sonic pleasures stored up over a tumultuous year of longing. Expect old time blues, new-time rhythms, and ballads about all the things we want to do with you.

Upcoming events

Gordon Lockwood at Terra Blues

Thurday, March 20 7-9:30pm

149 Bleecker Street, Manhattan

https://www.terrablues.com/

Gordon Lockwood at Terra Blues

Thurday, April 3 7-9:30pm

149 Bleecker Street, Manhattan

https://www.terrablues.com/

About the artists

Jeremiah Lockwood

Singer/guitarist Jeremiah Lockwood is the founder of The Sway Machinery, a world-exploring, genre-defying band perhaps best known for its collaborations with the late great Khaira Arby of Timbuktu.

Ricky "Dirty Red" Gordon

Drummer Ricky Gordon is a member of the Wynton Marsalis Ensemble and a prolific composer for the screen, including iconic collaborations with Spike Lee.

Debut EP from Gordon Lockwood!!

In the multimedia album Once Upon a Time the Fire Burned Brighter: Ballads from the Yiddish Gothic, scholar and musician Jeremiah Lockwood opens a doorway into the rich sensorium of the Yiddish ballad. Drawing deeply from the work of legendary Yiddish folk singer Lifshe Schaechter-Widman, the collection reimagines and recasts Yiddish ballads through audio and video performances by Gordon Lockwood (the musical project of Lockwood and drummer Ricky Gordon), which appear beside archival visuals, lyric adaptations, and textual explorations. Once Upon a Time the Fire Burned Brighter invites us to experience a body of Jewish song that emerges from a world of fantasy, memory, and symbol—constituting a Yiddish gothic, a folk expressionism unapologetic in the extremes of its enticing imagery.