John Gorka - Pure John Gorka (2006)

Tracklist

01. Looking Forward
02. Jack's Crows
03. Blue Chalk
04. I Saw A Stranger With Your Hair
05. Lightning's Blues
06. The Gypsy Life
07. Silence
08. Vinnie Charles Is Free
09. Where The Bottles Break
10. That's Why
11. Houses In The Fields
12. When She Kisses Me
13. The Ballad Of Jamie Bee
14. I'm From New Jersey
15. Italian Girls

Pure John Gorka, like the other titles in Windham Hill/Legacy's straightforward Pure series, aims at a distillation of its subject's career and gets it to-the-point right. Here you'll find all the underappreciated folkie's favorites - "I Saw a Stranger with Your Hair," "When She Kisses Me," "Looking Forward" - plus lesser-known meditations on sensitivity and vulnerability such as "The Ballad of Jamie Bee" and "Silence." As might be expected with any collection of Gorka's songs, a major selling point of this disc is its collaborators - Gorka boasts a lot of great and supportive musical friends; among them Lucy Kaplansky, Shawn Colvin, Cliff Eberhardt, and Jennifer Kimball.

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