It's a Gordon Lightfoot kind of day, well week actually

Always been one of my favorites. I have heard that playing backup for him wasn’t always easy or fun. Kind of had to play exactly as he wanted the part played.

 

You read my mind

 

I like This and the songs not bad either !

 

My parents had a Lightfoot LP in their stack although my mom and dad never listened to popular music while I grew up. Ever. Well, maybe Boney M, Nana Mouskouri, Anne Murray, etc.

Once, in college, I saw GL was coming to do a show at Hamilton Place (Hamilton, ON, Canada). I asked my mom if she'd like to go. She could not and then said "I saw him once in concert back then (like, late 60s!). Turns out it was a date. That was the first time I realized my parents had seen other people.

The LP was called Lightfoot! and was his first. 1966.

These are my favorite songs:

• That's What You Get for Loving Me
• Home From the Forest
• Early Morning Rain
• Ribbon of Darkness
• Did She Mention My Name

I like Canadian Railroad Trilogy b/c it's quite a story.

 

Beautiful
A Painter Passing Through
Song for a Winter’s Night
Actually every Gordon Lightfoot song is phenomenal...

 

There was a good biography written about him, I enjoyed it.

 

there is a documentary on him on netlfix or maybe amazon - my wife and I watched it a week ago and enjoyed it

 

One of the great singer-songwriters of his time and more influential than given credit for IMO. I have most of his albums and they get regular play by myself and my 20 year old son. They have led us to discover other greats that we'd have otherwise missed....check out Billy Lee Riley's cover of The Way I Feel.

 

Made me think of Jim Croce

 

I like most of his stuff a lot. I particularly like ‘On The High Seas’.

 

He's an original.

I have most of his recorded material and have seen him 3 X's.

He's old now and, though he tries hard, is way past his prime.

But, the songs will live on...

 

in the early morning rain is one of my favorite songs BECAUSE of GL's voice. So many great songs and such a nice delivery. I saw him in concert when I was 15 with my cousins... they smoked pot the entire show and I was transfixed by Gord. We went to see Kenny Rankin the next night in a tiny club and the cousins couldn't smoke... they said how pure his voice was... okay dokay!

 

He's a living legend around here (Toronto) and his fans included Dylan in the beginning of his career. Past illness has stripped his vocals of normal (power) delivery but the greatness remains. A brilliant story teller. Good references to his songs above in this post. Don't forget this one... (51) "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" - Gordon Lightfoot (HD w/ Lyrics) - YouTube

 

Just replaced my copy of Endless Wire; 'nuff said.

 

He's one of those guys that I just need to take about a week with and catch up on all his stuff.
Same with Jim Croce, same with a lot of others. There was just so much great music coming along at that time that it was hard to concentrate on much more than AM radio hits. -of course AM radio was a lot cooler back then.