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So Dark You See (2009)
  
Red Horse (2010)

Release date
  
13 October 2009

Label
  
Red House Records

Artist
  
John Gorka

Producer
  
John Gorka

Genre
  
Folk music

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Released
  
October 13, 2009 (2009-10-13)

Similar
  
Writing in the Margins, Old Futures Gone, The Company You Keep, After Yesterday, Out of the Valley

So Dark You See is a 2009 studio album by folk singer-songwriter John Gorka. The album offers eight new examples of Gorka's own lyrical songwriting, two instrumental tracks, poetry of Robert Burns and William Stafford performed and set to music by Gorka, covers of songs by fellow folkies, Utah Phillips and Michael Smith, and Gorka's take on the blues standard, "Trouble in Mind".

Contents

History

This was Gorka's eleventh studio album release in a career that has spanned over two decades. The album held the top position on the Folk Radio airplay chart for the months of September and October 2009. Folk Alley named "Ignorance & Privilege" as #6 on their list of The Top 10 Folk Songs of 2009.

Reception and commentary

Critical response was positive.

Personnel

Musicians

  • John Gorka — vocals, fretless banjo, guitar, harmonium, keyboards and percussion
  • Marc Anderson — percussion
  • Dan Chouinard — accordion
  • Dick Freymuth — electric guitar
  • Rob Genadek — Percussion
  • Eliza Gilkyson — vocals
  • Dean Magraw — electric and acoustic guitars
  • Michael Manring — fretless bass
  • Peter Ostroushko — fiddle and mandolin
  • Joel Sayles — vocals, upright bass
  • Enrique Toussaint — electric bass
  • Jeff Victor — keyboards

    • Production

  • Produced by Rob Genadek and John Gorka
  • Engineering by Rob Genadek and John Gorka at The Brewhouse in Minneapolis, MN
  • Lucy Kaplansky recorded by Mark Dann in New York, New York

    • Artwork

  • Front cover painting, "Clairmont near Ascutney" by Tom Pirozzoli
  • Back cover photography by Jos Van Vliet
  • Art direction and design by Jon Reischl

    • Songs

    1A Fond Kiss3:37
    2Whole Wide World2:54
    3Can't Get Over It3:32

    References

    So Dark You See Wikipedia
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