John Gorka - Land of the Bottom Line
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CD Details
Artist: John GorkaEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-04-10
Music Label: RCA Victor
Soundtracks:
- Land of the Bottom Line
- Armed with a Broken Heart
- Raven in the Storm
- One That Got Away
- Full of Life
- Stranger in My Driver's Seat
- Sentinel
- Dream Street
- Mean Streak
- Italian Girls
- Jailbirds in the Bighouse
- Promnight in Pigtown
- I Saw a Stranger With Your Hair
- Love Is Our Cross to Bear
- That's How Legends Are Made
Music reviews of Land of the Bottom Line
Music Review: Pleasant Acoustic Music
Rating: 5 Stars
This is the second CD I bought of John Gorka's music, and I really am enjoying it a lot. He has a nice, pleasant voice, and his songs are worth listening to. Being a fan of acoustic music, this one really is "right up my alley". I highly recommend it to those who love acoustic music, and appreciate lovely melodies and sensitive lyrics.
Description of Land of the Bottom Line
His rich baritone and literate songwriting are John Gorka's links to an urban folk tradition that belies his years, linking him more to early '60s troubadors than to the singer-songwriters of the '70s and '80s. Ranging from snapshots of modern life (as on the title song), to quietly devastating love songs ("Armed with a Broken Heart," "I Saw a Stranger with Your Hair") and funny, wistful meditations ("Italian Girls"), Gorka's songs are studded with dry wordplay, precise imagery, and sudden glimpses of deep feeling. Gorka and producer Bill Kollar resist more conventional commercial polish to keep the arrangements lean and largely acoustic, with Gorka's voice sparingly shadowed by occasional vocal harmonies from Shawn Colvin, among others. --Sam SutherlandGeneral CDs
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