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Pure John Gorka (CD)

By: John Gorka (Artist)

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John Gorka Artist Snapshot:

John Gorka mines folk, blues, bluegrass, and other acoustic musical forms to create deceptively simple tunes that convey a rich variety of emotional textures and ideas. Like many young singer-songwriters, Gorka paid his dues at open-mic events and later as a perpetual opening act in the early-1980s New York folk scene. He won the Kerrville Folk Festival's New Folk Competition in 1984, and started hanging out with the Jack Hardy crowd, the same folkies who nurtured Suzanne Vega's career. He began recording for Red House Records in 1987, and has also recorded critically acclaimed albums for Windham Hill and High Street. His relaxed style and wry, witty lyrics have endeared him to a smallish but loyal following.

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DISC 1 for Pure John Gorka (CD) Album By John Gorka (Artist)
1   Looking Forward
2   Jack's Crows
3   Blue Chalk
4   I Saw A Stranger With Your Hair
5   Lightning's Blues
6   Gypsy Life, The
7   Silence
8   Armed With A Broken Heart
9   Vinnie Charles Is Free
10   Where the Bottles Break
11   That's Why
12   Furniture
13   Houses In The Fields
14   When She Kisses Me
15   Ballad Of jamie Bee, The
16   I'm From New Jersey  
17   Italian Girls  
 

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Title Note

Personnel include: John Gorka (vocals, guitar); Roy Rogers (slide guitar); Todd Phillips (acoustic bass); Robbie Magruder (drums); John Jennings (percussion); Kathy Mattea, Nanci Griffith, Shawn Colvin (background vocals).

This best-of collects some of the 1990s recordings of John Gorka, one of New Jersey's lesser-known musical exports, an expert guitarist and evocative singer whose smart, odd, deeply felt songs conjure images of Richard Thompson and whose voice recalls a smoother Gordon Lightfoot. In a set that veers from the arcane to the pastoral, the mysterious "Jack's Crows" shows Gorka's more esoteric side, while "I Saw a Stranger With Your Hair" evokes the heartbreak of irretrievable loss.

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