Gary Marks Discography & Bibliography
Albums, Novels, Nonfiction and Piano Method Books
Albums and Recordings
All songs are available on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, and Bandcamp.
2026 Crossroads
2021 Alien Nights
2013 No Turning Back
2010 From Here
2007 A Whisper Can Change the World
2003 Bountiful
1994 If All They Said Was True
1988 The Real World
1985 Only Time Can Tell
1978 Thoughts of Why
1977 Upon Oanda’s Wing
1974 Gathering
Reissues
2025 Thoughts of Why — P-Vine Records — Japan/Asia
2025 Upon Oanda’s Wing — P-Vine Records — Japan/Asia
2025 Gathering — Lantern Heights Records / Europe
2016 Gathering / Re-released in Japan and Asia by P-Vine Records
2013 Thoughts of Why / Re-released in Japan and Asia by Stella Records
2012 Upon Oanda's Wing / Re-released in Japan and Asia by Stella Records
2006 Gathering / Re-released in Europe by Kindred Spirits Music in vinyl and CD
Songwriting Collaborations with Other Artists
Cris Williamson and Teresa Trull recorded three Gary Marks compositions — Gary Marks wrote "For Molly's Sky," "The Love We Take," and "Soulful Days" — on the Cris Williamson and Teresa Trull 1989 album Country Blessed (Olivia Records/Second Wave).
Cris Williamson later included "Soulful Days" on The Essential Cris Williamson (2005), a career-spanning retrospective of her own selected essential songs.
Teresa Trull recorded Gary's song "Only Time Can Tell," and co-wrote and recorded the title track "A Step Away," on her 1986 album A Step Away (Redwood Records).
In 2024, Sony/Alamo Records artist Reuben Aziz recorded "IDOLS," co-written with Gary Marks, from Aziz's album how did we end up here — a release that drew co-signs from Stormzy and other major UK artists.
Novels and Novellas
2026 Touching Eros
2026 Love +/- Time
2026 Timshel’s Choice (begun in 1968; completed and released in 2026)
2026 Emily’s Game
2025 The Dance and the Diamond Sky (self-published; revised from 1988 original)
The original manuscript of The Dance and the Diamond Sky was completed in 1988 and circulated among friends, but was never published or distributed.
2024 The Improviser
2023 Acoustic Punk
2023 Nora and I Stole a Car - A Modern Teenage Love Story
2019 (T)here
2019 One Wild True Moment
2017 Beyond Henry
2016 My Name Was Don
2016 Shelby’s Time
2012 Rain Dreams
2010 Journey Through the Riotous Dark
2009 Somewhere Beautiful
2007 Orbiting Chaos
2007 SuperStar
1988 The Dance and the Diamond Sky — original manuscript completed; unpublished
Non-Fiction and Piano Method Books
2023 Balance Beam at the Edge of the World — A new literary art form using multiple colors to create poems within poems
2023 How to Change the Channel to Make Thinking Feel Better
1990 Gary Marks Piano Method Book II — with audio teaching materials
1990 Gary Marks Piano Method Book I — with audio teaching materials
Critical Recognition for Crossroads
In 2026, Gary Marks’s vinyl album Crossroads was selected by Record Store Day UK / Europe 2026 along with albums by The Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac, John Lennon, George Harrison, Taylor Swift, and John Coltrane, among others. It spans more than five decades of Gary Marks’s songwriting, from his 1970s folk-jazz albums featuring John Scofield, Art Lande, Paul McCandless, David Samuels, and Mark Isham, through compositions he wrote in 2021. The songs from Crossroads have received independent coverage from Noise11, EARMILK, It’s Psychedelic Baby!, The Arts Desk, Stereo Embers Magazine, FAME Magazine, PopDust, and Americana Highways.
In previous decades Marks’s recordings received positive reviews in the San Jose Mercury, Jazz Magazine, Oakland Tribune, and San Francisco Bay Guardian.
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Note: This page refers to Gary Marks, American singer-songwriter, musician, and author. Not to be confused with Gary Marks, the UNC political science professor, the professional golfer, or other individuals sharing this name.
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