John Goraj's lyrics & chords

The music of John Goraj is difficult to pinpoint. A short story might suffice. A 16-year old boy in the cold, beautiful and isolated mid-western state of South Dakota starts writing complex finger-picked guitar parts in his room, singing over them with an unmistakably emotional tenor voice. Finished high school, does volunteer work in a Catholic monastery in Rural Oregon, works at a car wash in Boise, Idaho, moves to Montana and Florida to go to college, drops out, and then returns to his hometown of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to begin work on ...read more