Old Futures Gone
''Old Futures Gone'' is the ninth studio album by folk music, folk singer-songwriter John Gorka. It was released on September 23, 2003, by Red House Records. The album debuted at number two on the ''Folk Music Radio Airplay Chart'' and reached number one in October 2003.Top Albums of September 2003
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compiled by Richard Gillmann from FolkDJ-L radio playlists. Gorka shares writing credit with his wife, Laurie Allman, for the lyrics of "Trouble and Care". Lucy Kaplansky, Alice Peacock, Kathleen Johnson (singer), Kathleen Johnson and Joel Sayles each add harmony, harmony vocals to various tracks.

Track listing

# "Dogs & Thunder" (Gorka) – 5:20 # "Always" (Gorka) – 3:55 # "Look the Other Way" (Gork ...
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John Gorka
John Gorka (born July 27, 1958) is an American singer-songwriter. In 1991, ''Rolling Stone'' magazine called him "the preeminent male singer-songwriter of what has been dubbed the New Folk Movement." Personal life Gorka was raised in the Colonia section of Woodbridge Township, New Jersey, where he attended Colonia High School. He studied philosophy and history at Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and graduated from there in 1980. As of 2005, he was residing in the St. Croix Valley area near Saint Paul, Minnesota. Career Gorka formed the Razzy Dazzy Spasm Band with Doug Anderson and Russ Rentler, which would also include guitarist Richard Shindell. After graduating from Moravian, he began performing solo at Godfrey Daniels coffee house in South Bethlehem as the opening act for various musicians including Nanci Griffith, Bill Morrissey, Claudia Schmidt and Jack Hardy. In 1984, Gorka was one of six winners chosen from the finalists in the New Folk competition at ...
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