Roxy Gordon

About the artist

Roxy Gordon (March 7, 1945 – February 7, 2000) was a Choctaw and Assiniboine poet, novelist, musician and activist. He lived in Talpa, Texas, and had a following in England. In the 1970s, he ran a country music magazine, Picking up the Tempo, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His first CD was titled Smaller Circles. He ran a small publishing company called Wowapi. Gordon used spoken vocals accompanied by music that mixed Native American rhythms with country and western themes and musicians working in Texas at the time.

Top songs

1. I Used to Know an Assiniboine GIrl
2. An Open Letter to Illegal Aliens
3. Crazy Horse Is Alive
4. Junked Cars
5. Living Life as a Living Target
6. The Western Edge
7. Flying into Ann Arbor (Holding)
8. The Hanging of Black Jack Ketchum
9. Why Do I Miss Someone?
10. The Texas Indian

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