John Gorka, Land of the Bottom Line - 59m 52s

Tracks & Durations

1. Land of the Bottom Line	3:36
2. Armed with a Broke Heart	3:31
3. Raven in the Storm	3:16
4. The One That Got Away	3:46
5. Full of Life	3:14
6. Stranger in My Driver's Seat	3:37
7. The Sentinel	3:56
8. Dream Street	3:11
9. Mean Streak	2:32
10. Italian Girls	5:48
11. Jailbirds In the Bighouse	3:54
12. Promnight in Pigtown	5:21
13. I Saw a Stranger With Your Hair	4:02
14. Love is Our Cross to Bear	4:57
15. That's How Legends are Made	5:02

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Review

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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Land of the Bottom Line

Tracks: 15, Disk length: 59m 35s (-1m 43s)

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