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John Gorka albums featuring Michael Manring
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| | Writing In The Margins CD (2006)
 $14.59   
The singer-songwriter John Gorka specializes in songs of regret, and this set, in which he's accompanied by frequent collaborator Nanci Griffith and a small band, contains some heartachingly beautiful examples. Gorka's version of Townes Van Zandt's "Snow Don't Fall" gets ...
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| Company You Keep CD (2001)
$14.49 
For the most part, Gorka offers low-energy singer/songwriter folk with shades of adult contemporary rock on The Company You Keep. Weary nostalgia dominates his introspective, observational lyrics. Whether it's first person or second person, the material muses over lost chances ...
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| After Yesterday CD (1998)
$14.75
With a warm baritone that exudes keen understanding, John Gorka explores the nature of many things on this album. On the very fine "Wisdom," the singer invests what most would consider a virtue with melancholy baggage: "Wisdom exists though it's ...
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 John Gorka Songs
Popular or famous John Gorka songs: Gypsy Life, I Saw a Stranger With Your Hair, Let Them In, When You Sing, Love Is Our Cross to Bear. More music songs Houses in the Fields, People My Age, Out of My Mind, Riverside, Branching Out, Girl of the North Country, Bluer State, Broken Place. More music songs Chance of Rain, I Miss Everyone, Satellites, Snow Don't Fall, Unblindfold the Referee, Writing in the Margins, Bracero.
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John Gorka Biography
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.
Key Personnel
| Member Name | Worked With | | John Gorka | Lucy Kaplansky, Darol Anger, Nina Gerber, Nanci Griffith, Geoff Bartley, Catie Curtis, Christine Lavin, Peter, Paul & Mary, Richard Shindell | | Lucy Kaplansky | Richard Shindell, Eric Andersen, Cheryl Wheeler, Cry Cry Cry, Bryan Ferry, Nina Gerber, Nanci Griffith, Eileen Ivers | | Michael Manring | Suzanne Ciani, Michael Hedges, Holly Near, William Ackerman, Henry Kaiser, Carl Weingarten, At War With Self, Attention Deficit (Rock | | John Jennings | Mary-Chapin Carpenter, Indigo Girls, Cheryl Wheeler, Robin Williams, Joe Diffie, Jen Cass, Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer, Catie Curtis, Iris Dement | | Dean Magraw | Lorie Line, Peter Ostroushko, Claudia Schmidt, Dancing Hands, Connie Evingson, Marty Haugen, Kevin Kern, Spider John Koerner | | Dirk Freymuth | Peter Ostroushko, Mandy Moore, Ruth MacKenzie, Billy McLaughlin, Neal & Leandra |
Contemporaries
Shawn Colvin, Nanci Griffith, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Suzanne Vega, Tracy Chapman, Eric Andersen, Michelle Shocked, Greg Brown, Dar Williams, Patty Griffin, Chris Smither, David Wilcox, Christine Lavin, Dave's True Story, Richard Shindell, Cliff Eberhardt, Bill Morrissey (Folk), Marc Cohn, Frank Christian, Rod MacDonald, John Adorney, Ed Alkalay
Followers
John Mayer (Adult Alternative), Ollabelle, Erica Smith (Rock), Bob Schneider, Dayna Kurtz
Influences
Bob Dylan, Carole King, James Taylor (Soft Rock), Cat Stevens, Tom Paxton, John Prine, Gordon Lightfoot, Phil Ochs, Jim Croce, George Winston, Tom Rush, Harry Chapin, Jack Hardy, Stan Rogers
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