1 Good Noise
2 That's Why
3 Carnival Knowledge (Second Hand Face)
4 Talk About Love
5 Big Time Lonesome
6 Furniture
7 Mystery to Me
8 Out of the Valley
9 Thoughtless Behavior
10 Always Going Home
11 Flying Red Horse
12 Up Until Then

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A Dissent: He's Competent, Sincere, and Awfully Bland

 Album Rating: (3 of 5 stars)

Review Comments: 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.

Brilliant

 Album Rating: (5 of 5 stars)

Review Comments: This is a brilliant singer/songwriter. It's amazing that the general public hasn't discovered him. Honesty and love exude from this man. He is also wonderful in concert...saw him in Oshkosh, Wisconsin at the Grand Theatre in 2001.

Simple..This man is a great artist.

 Album Rating: (5 of 5 stars)

Review Comments: No matter what music you listen to, you should pick up ANY of this man's CD's. What a great tallent. This is not my favorite disc by John...but it is still a great disk. Check out the full of spirit 'good noise'...one of the best cuts in recorded history!

Moving, Real and Honestly Touching

 Album Rating: (4 of 5 stars)

Review Comments: Choose any Gorka recording and be ready to be touched. He hits home without disturbing and makes one think and still feel good. Flying Red Horses is my favorite cut off this CD. I just love it!

Masterful

 Album Rating: (5 of 5 stars)

Review Comments: Without a doubt, one of the best songwriters out there and this release does not dissappoint. Gorka weaves between acoustic folk and soulful rock with ease on this disc. Among the standouts are "Good Noise", "Flying Red Horses", "Carnival Knowledge" and "Up Until Then". Backup vocals provided by such notables as Mary Chapin Carpenter and Kathy Mattea. Buy this disc....you won't be disappointed.