John Gorka - Out of the Valley
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Artist: John GorkaEdition: Music CD
Audio: German (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 1994-05-10
Music Label: Highstreet
Soundtracks:
- Good Noise
- That's Why
- Carnival Knowledge (Second Hand Face)
- Talk About Love
- Big Time Lonesome
- Furniture
- Mystery to Me
- Out of the Valley
- Thoughtless Behavior
- Always Going Home
- Flying Red Horse
- Up Until Then
Music reviews of Out of the Valley
Music Review: A Dissent: He's Competent, Sincere, and Awfully Bland
Rating: 3 Stars
Ah, what to do if you are a folkie who might not even have been born forty years ago or so when folk music hit its peak. Well, I think you'd better have a new twist, some great arrangements, or be one heckuva writer. Otherwise, you risk the same old-same old syndrome. And, for me, that's precisely where John Gorka lands. There's nothing striking about his music and his lyrics are tired, even if he means them as irony ("I went off like a gun in a loaded room" "Like the old saying goes, all roads lead to Rome" "I sowed my seed like a farm boy"). I bought the CD on the promise of Good Noise. None of the rest comes close to matching up.
Description of Out of the Valley
Like Lyle Lovett, John Gorka is a singer-songwriter with a warped view of relationships and a wicked but deadpan sense of humor, both disguised by a dry baritone that doesn't seem to fit comfortably in any musical format. With Out of the Valley Gorka moves out of the folkie ghetto into the peculiar gospel-swing-chamber-music niche that only Lovett seems to inhabit. Producer John Jennings, who helped make a star of another ex-folkie, Mary Chapin Carpenter, makes this transition remarkably smooth, and the result is a major step forward for this underappreciated talent. --Geoffrey HimesGeneral CDs
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