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Originally Posted by Ford Prefect
I'm not sure how many Lightfoot fans there are around here. He doesn't seem like the type of guy most around here would be into. The old troubadour turned 70 today at any rate, which is something of an accomplishment for him given his consumption of alcohol over the years.
Here a Canoe tribute link: http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Artists/L/...302271-ca.html
He wrote some classics IMO, including this one, which I think should be our national anthem:
I think I'll go have a birthday scotch in honour of one of Canada's great songwriters. He's probably not imbibing much these days but hopefully he'd appreciate the gesture. |
Well he is a Canadian icon, and he has written some good stuff. Not really my cup of tea though but then most folk music does not do it for me. I feel the problem with a lot of Canadian artists is they have been played to death on Canadian radio to meet the CRTC Canadian content and usually, they just play the artist's classics until you are sick to deat of them.
While that might be a classic song for Lightfoot, replacing our present Canadian anthem with that song would be a travesty.