So Dark You See | ||||
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Studio album by John Gorka | ||||
Released | October 13, 2009 | |||
Genre | Folk, singer-songwriter | |||
Label | Blue chalk/Red House | |||
Producer | Rob Genadek and John Gorka | |||
John Gorka chronology | ||||
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Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
Acoustic Guitar | favorable |
Curator | favorable |
Flying Shoes | favorable |
The Gazette | favorable |
MusicMatters | favorable |
PopMatters | 6/10 |
Washington Post | favorable |
Rob Williams | favorable |
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".
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.
Critical response was positive.
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