Click here and you will hear John talking about the "Red Horse" project: 45 seconds on WNKU (Northern Kentucky University), feb 22, 2010

Later this year, Gorka will release a collaborative album with Lucy Kaplansky – with whom he’s been working off and on since 1985 – and Eliza Gilkyson, both of whom appear with Gorka, though not together, on “So Dark.”

“We’ll be doing a number of songs with each of us as the main singer. The record’s going to be called ‘Red Horse,’” Gorka said. “Eliza had done a show in New York last year with Lucy and Cliff Eberhardt, and I think it was the first time they got to sing together. I think Eliza also heard how Lucy and I sound together, and I think she was the one who probably suggested we do this.”

(article, April 1, 2010 "So Dark You See: The Music of John Gorka ")

Lucy Kaplansky on her Myspace blog (2010):

I’m very very excited to tell you about a collaboration I’m involved with: I’m making an album with my good friends John Gorka and Eliza Gilkyson!!! I adore both of their songs and their singing and we’re working on a trio CD that should be out this summer. I don’t want to reveal too much about it yet, but I can tell you it’s going to be relatively stripped down in terms of instrumentation and that and it’ll be a mix of original songs and covers with lots and lots of harmonies. The name of our group is “Red Horse.”.... .. ..

I’m ecstatic to get to work with John and Eliza, and I’ll keep you posted with more specifics as we get closer to the release date. We’ll also be doing some trio shows starting this summer.

John Gorka about the "Red horse" project in the Facebook interview.

April 21, 2010
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Roch Parisien: Community with your peers has always seemed important to you John. You've done excellent covers of other people's songs, and many of your peers have covered yours. You always have a coterie of fine guests dropping in on every album...on this latest, the excellent Eliza Gilkyson and Lucy Kaplansky, for example...

John Gorka: One of my all time favorite things about playing music has been the people I have gotten to meet and sing and record with. I'm working on a record with Lucy and Eliza called "Red Horse". We're doing each others' songs, one of our own and an outside cover.

Roch Parisien: Excellent! What's the projection for completing that and having it out?

John Gorka: We are hoping to have it all mixed and mastered next month and out sometime in the summer.

Roch Parisien: Do you find that these kind of collaborations help keep the creative juices flowing for you? And can we ask what the outside cover is?

John Gorka: What I mean by an outside cover is that we will each record a song that none of us has written. I will do an Eliza song, a Lucy song, one of mine and a song Archie Fisher recorded "Coshieville" by Stewart MacGregor. I'm hoping I spelled SM's name correctly.

Roch Parisien: So the standard, nearing the end, "what's next for John Gorka?" question...You were just in the studio recording today! What's the inside scoop? What's coming up live and recording-wise for you?

John Gorka: I was working on the "Red Horse" record this morning. I think you'll be hearing more fretless banjo on one of the songs.

Lucy Kaplansky about the "Red horse" project in Kennebec Journal Staff

May 6 , 2010
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Q: Now, "Over the Hills" is a 2007 release ... are you working on something new?\

KAPLANSKY: Yes, which is why I'm so busy today. I can tell you that I'm making a CD with Eliza Gilkyson and John Gorka as we speak. (It's) a trio CD which we're all very excited about, and I'm going to sing some harmonies today in a couple of hours. I've been working with both of them for years -- I love them both, I think they're both incredible artists. Eliza -- I think it was in January -- said: "Hey, Lucy, want to do some gigs with me and John?" And I said: "Wow, that sounds like so much fun." And then my husband (Rick Litvin), who's really smart, said "Why don't you guys make an album together?" So I said to them: "Why don't we make an album?" And they said: "Let's do it!" Well, we're almost done with it and it should be out in July. The name of the group is called Red Horse -- seeing we're all on Red House Records ... so that's the new thing I'm working on.

Q: Is it sort of along the line of the trio work you did with Dar Williams and Richard Shindell that was known as Cry, Cry, Cry?

KAPLANSKY: Well, it's a little bit different -- it's a mix of originals and covers ... Cry, Cry, Cry was virtually all other people's songs, and this one is more kind of a mix of originals with each other doing each other's songs, which I've never heard of anyone doing before.

Q: That's cool!

KAPLANSKY: It is cool -- that was Eliza's idea. So, yeah, it's sort of along the lines of Cry, Cry, Cry -- yes!

Q: Are you three going to be touring together to help support the album?

KAPLANSKY: Yeah, we've already got a bunch of gigs booked and there's going to be more -- yes, we're going to do a bunch of gigs together.

Q: Any chance you'd be getting back to Maine with John and Eliza?

KAPLANSKY: You know, I don't know -- it's certainly possible.

Q: Well, there's Unity College Centre for the Performing Arts and the Stone Mountain Arts Center in Brownfield -- Carol Noonan's place.

KAPLANSKY: Oh, Stone Mountain -- what a great idea. Yeah, I'm going to look into that one, especially -- I love that place -- it would be perfect for us. Thank you for suggesting that.

Q: Now, you have played at Slates many times in the past, have you not?

KAPLANSKY: I think this is going to be something like my fourth time -- something like that. And the new room there is beautiful -- I mean, they did a gorgeous renovation, gorgeous.

Q: Is there anything you would like me to pass on to the readers of this "What's Happening" article?

KAPLANSKY: You know, mainly about the new project -- that's really the main thing that's going on, so if you mention that, that would be great ... get the word out because it's supposed to be out in July, but it is possible it'll be August: we're trying to make a couple of deadlines now. We're at the tail-end of recording it right now. We're going to have to have it done in a couple of weeks, in fact.