Time: 59:23
Size: 136.0 MB
Styles: Folk
Year: 1990
Art: Front
[3:33] 1. Land Of The Bottom Line
[3:32] 2. Armed With A Broken Heart
[3:14] 3. Raven In The Storm
[3:46] 4. The One That Got Away
[3:13] 5. Full Of Life
[3:35] 6. Stranger In My Driver's Seat
[3:55] 7. The Sentinel
[3:12] 8. Dream Street
[2:31] 9. Mean Streak
[5:47] 10. Italian Girls
[3:54] 11. Jailbirds In The Bighouse
[5:21] 12. Promnight In Pigtown
[4:00] 13. I Saw A Stranger With Your Hair
[4:56] 14. Love Is Our Cross To Bear
[4:48] 15. That's How Legends Are Made
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 Sutherland
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