John Gorka

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The Gypsy Life 00:00 Tools
I Saw a Stranger With Your Hair 00:00 Tools
Love is Our Cross to Bear 00:00 Tools
I'm From New Jersey 00:00 Tools
Silence 00:00 Tools
Houses in the Fields 00:00 Tools
Blue Chalk 00:00 Tools
Italian Girls 00:00 Tools
Land of the Bottom Line 00:00 Tools
Raven in the Storm 00:00 Tools
When She Kisses Me 00:00 Tools
Geza's Wailing Ways 00:00 Tools
Where the Bottles Break 00:00 Tools
Armed with a Broken Heart 00:00 Tools
Jack's Crows 00:00 Tools
The One that Got Away 00:00 Tools
Vinnie Charles Is Free 00:00 Tools
Lightning's Blues 00:00 Tools
Looking Forward 00:00 Tools
That's Why 00:00 Tools
The Ballad of Jamie Bee 00:00 Tools
The Sentinel 00:00 Tools
That's How Legends are Made 00:00 Tools
Always Going Home 00:00 Tools
Dream Street 00:00 Tools
Christmas Bells 00:00 Tools
Girl of the North Country 00:00 Tools
Jailbirds in the Bighouse 00:00 Tools
Edgar The Party Man 00:00 Tools
Full of Life 00:00 Tools
Two Good Reasons 00:00 Tools
Riverside 00:00 Tools
Stranger in my Driver's Seat 00:00 Tools
Good Noise 00:00 Tools
Mean Streak 00:00 Tools
Can't Make Up My Mind 00:00 Tools
Part Of Your Own 00:00 Tools
Furniture 00:00 Tools
Airstream Bohemians 00:00 Tools
Out Of The Valley 00:00 Tools
A Fond Kiss 00:00 Tools
The Mortal Groove 00:00 Tools
Campaign Trail 00:00 Tools
Flying Red Horse 00:00 Tools
Paradise, Once 00:00 Tools
My Invisible Gun 00:00 Tools
Promnight in Pigtown 00:00 Tools
B.B. King was Wrong 00:00 Tools
Scraping Dixie 00:00 Tools
What Was That 00:00 Tools
Always 00:00 Tools
Writing in the Margins 00:00 Tools
Bigtime Lonesome 00:00 Tools
I Think of You 00:00 Tools
Ignorance & Privilege 00:00 Tools
Mystery To Me 00:00 Tools
Holed Up Mason City 00:00 Tools
Whole Wide World 00:00 Tools
If Not Now 00:00 Tools
Let Them In 00:00 Tools
Talk About Love 00:00 Tools
Bright Side of Down 00:00 Tools
Up Until Then 00:00 Tools
Downtown Tonight 00:00 Tools
Can’t Get Over It 00:00 Tools
Chance of Rain 00:00 Tools
Carnival Knowledge (second hand face) 00:00 Tools
Fret One 00:00 Tools
Blues Palace 00:00 Tools
I Know 00:00 Tools
Down in the Milltown 00:00 Tools
Branching Out 00:00 Tools
Snow Don't Fall 00:00 Tools
Where No Monuments Stand 00:00 Tools
Night Into Day 00:00 Tools
Oh Abraham 00:00 Tools
The Dutchman 00:00 Tools
Thorny Patch 00:00 Tools
Satellites 00:00 Tools
When You Walk In 00:00 Tools
Bluer State 00:00 Tools
A Saint's Complaint 00:00 Tools
Dogs & Thunder 00:00 Tools
Morningside 00:00 Tools
War Makes War 00:00 Tools
People My Age 00:00 Tools
The Lockkeeper 00:00 Tools
High Horse 00:00 Tools
Out of My Mind 00:00 Tools
Live by the Sword 00:00 Tools
Make Them Crazy 00:00 Tools
Fret Not 00:00 Tools
Trouble in Mind 00:00 Tools
Diminishing Winds 00:00 Tools
When You Sing 00:00 Tools
Like My Watch 00:00 Tools
Wisdom 00:00 Tools
Mr. Chambers 00:00 Tools
Cypress Trees 00:00 Tools
Winter Cows 00:00 Tools
St. Caffeine 00:00 Tools
More Than One 00:00 Tools
That Was the Year 00:00 Tools
Unblindfold the Referee 00:00 Tools
Arms Length 00:00 Tools
Over There 00:00 Tools
Road of Good Intentions 00:00 Tools
When the Ice Goes Out 00:00 Tools
Outside 00:00 Tools
Amber Lee 00:00 Tools
Soldier After All 00:00 Tools
January Floor 00:00 Tools
Look the Other Way 00:00 Tools
Outnumbered 00:00 Tools
Shapes 00:00 Tools
Shape of the World 00:00 Tools
Heart Upon Demand 00:00 Tools
Broken Place 00:00 Tools
The Mercy of the Wheels 00:00 Tools
When He Cries 00:00 Tools
Temporary Road 00:00 Tools
Silvertown 00:00 Tools
Old Future 00:00 Tools
Procrastination Blues 00:00 Tools
Thirsty Boots 00:00 Tools
Joint of No Return 00:00 Tools
Thoughtless Behavior 00:00 Tools
I Miss Everyone 00:00 Tools
Hank Senior Moment 00:00 Tools
After Yesterday 00:00 Tools
When I Lost My Faith 00:00 Tools
Honeybee 00:00 Tools
She’s That Kind of Mystery 00:00 Tools
Good 00:00 Tools
Wisheries 00:00 Tools
Baby Blues 00:00 Tools
Lay Me Down 00:00 Tools
Night is a Woman 00:00 Tools
Heroes 00:00 Tools
Semper Fi 00:00 Tools
Thirstier Wind 00:00 Tools
Really Spring 00:00 Tools
Around the House 00:00 Tools
Treasure Islands 00:00 Tools
Trouble & Care 00:00 Tools
Mind to Think 00:00 Tools
You're On Your Way 00:00 Tools
Can't Get Over It 00:00 Tools
Zuly 00:00 Tools
Poor Side 00:00 Tools
If I Could Forget To Breathe 00:00 Tools
My New Neighborhood 00:00 Tools
I Don't Feel Like A Train 00:00 Tools
Gravyland 00:00 Tools
Don’t Judge a Life 00:00 Tools
All That Hammering 00:00 Tools
Grand Larceny 00:00 Tools
Do La Lay 00:00 Tools
Can You Understand My Joy? 00:00 Tools
She's That Kind of Mystery 00:00 Tools
Nazarene Guitar 00:00 Tools
B. B. King Was Wrong 00:00 Tools
Brown Shirts 00:00 Tools
True in Time 00:00 Tools
Just Like A Woman 00:00 Tools
Thoughtless Behaviour 00:00 Tools
Tattooed 00:00 Tools
Arroyo Seco 00:00 Tools
Things We've Handed Down 00:00 Tools
Mennonite Girl 00:00 Tools
Sweet Love 00:00 Tools
Blues with a Rising Sun 00:00 Tools
Fallen for You 00:00 Tools
Crowded Heart 00:00 Tools
Blues Palce 00:00 Tools
Carnival Knowledge 00:00 Tools
Cry for Help 00:00 Tools
The Body Parts Medley 00:00 Tools
The Ballad of Iris & Pearl 00:00 Tools
Don't Judge a Life 00:00 Tools
True in Time (reprise) 00:00 Tools
Geza’s Wailing Ways 00:00 Tools
Red Eye & Roses 00:00 Tools
Bracero 00:00 Tools
Against Hats 00:00 Tools
Winter Cpws 00:00 Tools
Holed Up In Mason City 00:00 Tools
The Land of the Bottom Line 00:00 Tools
Raven In The Storm (Live) 00:00 Tools
Snow Don't Fall (Townes Van Zandt cover) 00:00 Tools
Mercy Of The Wheels 00:00 Tools
Who Should Know 00:00 Tools
Broken Place 00:00 Tools
Love Is Our Cross To Bear (live) 00:00 Tools
The Lock Keeper 00:00 Tools
Z Uly 00:00 Tools
John Gorka - The Water Is Wide 00:00 Tools
Isasha - Don't you know 00:00 Tools
Red Eye and Roses 00:00 Tools
Baby Blues (live at KBCO) 00:00 Tools
Gypsy Life 00:00 Tools
The Lockkeeper (Stan Rogers Cover) 00:00 Tools
Baby Blues (unplugged) 00:00 Tools
Stranger With Your Hair 00:00 Tools
Song For New Year's Eve 00:00 Tools
I Saw a Stranger with Your Hai 00:00 Tools
Sweet Love 326 00:00 Tools
Down Where the Rabbits Run 00:00 Tools
Janruary Floor 00:00 Tools
Baby Blues (Live) 00:00 Tools
A January Floor 00:00 Tools
The Water Is Wide - John Gorka 00:00 Tools
Sweet Love (John Gorka) 00:00 Tools
People My Age (Acoustic) 00:00 Tools
No Guarantee 00:00 Tools
The Lockkeeper [stan rogers cover] 00:00 Tools
Thorney Patch 00:00 Tools
People My Age (8/26/00) 00:00 Tools
No Place To Hide 00:00 Tools
Thirstier World 00:00 Tools
Let Them In (John Gorka) 00:00 Tools
The Gypsy Life (Live) 00:00 Tools
Dogs and Thunder 00:00 Tools
Soldiers After All 00:00 Tools
Arm's Length 00:00 Tools
Long Black Wall 00:00 Tools
Lightning's Bllues 00:00 Tools
Things We've Handed Down (Marc Cohn cover) 00:00 Tools
Distinguishing Winds 00:00 Tools
It's Really Spring 00:00 Tools
Down At The Sea Hotel 00:00 Tools
FolkAlley.com 00:00 Tools
*Satellities 00:00 Tools
Flying Red horses 00:00 Tools
The Dutchman. 00:00 Tools
Gezas Wailing Ways 00:00 Tools
I'm From New Jersey (Live) 00:00 Tools
One Cool Remove 00:00 Tools
The one who got away 00:00 Tools
Ballad of Jamie Bee 00:00 Tools
Nothing But A Child 00:00 Tools
While Roving 00:00 Tools
Leaving Soweto 00:00 Tools
The Lock-Keeper 00:00 Tools
Sweet Love (Remembering Kate Wolf) 00:00 Tools
Houses in the Fields '91 00:00 Tools
Ward 00:00 Tools
Love Is My Cross to Bear 00:00 Tools
Lightnings Blues 00:00 Tools
Utah 00:00 Tools
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John Gorka (born in July 1958) is an American contemporary folk musician. In 1991, Rolling Stone magazine called him "the pre-eminent male singer-songwriter of what has been dubbed the New Folk Movement. Gorka was born in Edison, New Jersey. He received his first guitar as a Christmas gift, though Gorka alleges that his older brother stole it from him shortly thereafter. He eventually learned, instead, to play the banjo, and began performing in a folk music group at his church. Gorka attended Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and joined the Razzy Dazzy Spasm Band which would also include guitarist Richard Shindell. He later began performing solo at the Godfrey Daniels coffee house as the opening act for various musicians that toured there. These included Nanci Griffith, Bill Morrissey, Claudia Schmidt and Jack Hardy. In 1984, Gorka took first place at the Kerrville Folk Festival. Since then he has toured with artists such as Suzanne Vega, Shawn Colvin, Michael Manring, Christine Lavin, Dave Van Ronk, Cliff Eberhardt, David Massengill, Frank Christian and Lucy Kaplansky. As of 2005, he was residing in the St. Croix Valley area near Saint Paul, Minnesota. In 2008, Gorka decided to return to Europe for the first time in fourteen years. In October that year, he played four times in the Netherlands, he played live on VPRO radio and he did a session for the John Gorka video site. In 2009, Gorka toured in the USA and also in Ireland and the Netherlands. In October that year, Red House Records released the CD "So Dark You See". This is considered a more intimate, vocal and guitar-centered record than the last two albums. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.