“[My mother] told me a little bit about the scene out there and I think, as a small child, I just always felt a connection to that history because my mother had described it to me.” ThinkingChildrenLittlesMotherFeltBitsSceneLittle BitConnectionsSmall Child Author:Jon Gordon
“[My mother told me] stories about Nat King Cole, and Miles Davis, and seeing pictures in later years with band leaders like Alvino Ray.” YearsStoriesMotherLeaderSeeingKingsBandMilesRays Author:Jon Gordon
“I heard these stories [about musicians from my mother] and somehow music, it was my understanding what my father had done. I didn't know it was misinformation. It sort of inwardly in my psyche laid the template for music being affiliated with my father and my family.” KnowsDoneStoriesMotherFatherUnderstandingHeardMusicianMusic IsMy FamilyMisinformation Author:Jon Gordon
“We [with my mother] listened to music when I was a kid. We listened to a little bit of Bob's [Gordon] music, but just a little, I think it was too painful for her.” ThinkingLittlesKidsMotherBitsLittle BitPainfulBob Author:Jon Gordon
“We listened [with my mother] to [Frank] Sinatra and Glen Campbell and we had some Beatles records that I liked. This was in the '70s.” MotherRecordsFrank Author:Jon Gordon
“I just think that I associated music with something that was healing and transformative as a kid.” ThinkingKidsHealing Author:Jon Gordon
“I saw that [music] reflected in my mother when we listened to these records [of Bob Gordon]. And I felt it too.” MotherFeltRecordsSawsBob Author:Jon Gordon
“We were poor [with my mother], and we didn't have too much. So we sat on the floor and we had a record player, and that's all we had in that room in the apartment. But we had whatever we had. Six records and a record player and it seemed like magic. Seven or eight years old, you know.” KnowsYearsMotherPoorRoomsRecordsToo MuchPlayerMagicSixSevenEightSatApartmentOld YouRecord Players Author:Jon Gordon
“I asked all through third, fourth and fifth grade, when they were asking kids to be in the band, to be in the school band. But they wouldn't let me do it.” KidsSchoolBandThirdsLet MeAskingGradesFourthFifthFifth GradeSchool Band Author:Jon Gordon