17 songs reissued by
Windham Hill Records
(John Gorka his old record label)

WINH-CD681696

From the Windham Hill News page:

click here to listen to all sound samples

Part of an interview in The Post-Standard:

"Pure John Gorka" is a "best-of" compilation due out on Windham Hill Records on June 27. "It's hard to describe as a greatest hits thing. . . . The songs were picked to make a good record upon itself. A best-of, with my favorite songs, that would not make a good record to listen to. My favorites would be too slow," he says.

So he trusted Dawn Atkinson, who produced two of his albums, to pick the songs for him. But that wasn't until he had substantiated that it was coming out at all. "I didn't know about it until I got a call from the copyright department of Sony/BMG," he says.

"I called them back and said, 'I have a record coming out?' I found out the story behind it, they're putting out a series from Windham Hill artists." "Writing in the Margins" is a studio album on Red House Records that will be released July 11.

... Read the whole interview from june 1, 2006: Gorka brings world of folk music to town

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