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.
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.
Love Gordon Lightfoot, amazing singer/songwriter. He's coming to Calgary too.
Ya, I was surprised to hear he still has the jam to do another tour. His health seems pretty frail anymore. I saw him a couple times back in his prime so I think I'll skip this tour. I'd prefer to recall him the way he was in his prime.
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.
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.
He was here this past year and I regret not going to see him.
Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is probably my earliest memory of being emotionally moved by music, and at 5 I really had no frame of reference to understand that the song was about an actual shipwreck. It was the music that moved me.
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Dis, you and I have extremely similar tastes in music. I haven't posted in the various music threads over the years, but I've noticed that whenever you post in one of them, I basically don't have to because you said almost exactly what I would have said.
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I love Gordon Lightfoot, he has been a fave of mine for a long time. Back in Grade 10 I was listening to Gord's Gold alongside White Zombie.
So many great songs, but yes Canadian Railroad Trilogy is one of the greats. Also, pretty moving to be driving through the arid Australian outback in the middle of nowhere and hear Edmund Fitzgerald come on ABC radio.
I love Gordon! You guys have no idea how badly I get beaked for listening to him...18 year old uni student listening to what has been dubbed by everyone as "old man music". I got chirped hard when my roommate first heard it...but he's turning around to it I think!
So over the mountains and over the plains
Into the muskeg and into the rain
Up the st. lawrence all the way to gaspe
Swingin our hammers and drawin our pay
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I love Gordon! You guys have no idea how badly I get beaked for listening to him...18 year old uni student listening to what has been dubbed by everyone as "old man music". I got chirped hard when my roommate first heard it...but he's turning around to it I think!
So over the mountains and over the plains
Into the muskeg and into the rain
Up the st. lawrence all the way to gaspe
Swingin our hammers and drawin our pay
Meh, I'm a 21 year old Uni student. Gordon Lightfoot kicks ass...your roomie just has no taste in music.
My favorite of his that has not yet been mentioned is Early Morning Rain. Love that song.
Such an awesome song. My dad tripped out when that song came on in my truck while he was riding with me. He started going on and on about stuff in his youth. It was awesome.
The SW CP softball team is all too familiar with me and my love for Gordon. I think Junk secretly loves him, but pretends to be bitter.
My favorite lyric in all of song is written by Lightfoot. From Edmund Fitzgerald he writes:
Does anyone know where the love of God goes
When the waves turn the minutes to hours
The searchers all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay
If they'd put fifteen more miles behind her
She might have split up or might have capsized
She may have broke deep and took water Now all that remains are the faces and the names
Of the wives and the sons and the daughters
The bolded line gets me every time. I love that lyric. I think it's brilliant.
As for his other great songs, I'm partial to many, but my diamond in the rough is 'For Lovin Me'. Absolutely hilarious to any guy that has ever gone on a spree. The lyrics are really funny. Get past the fact that it's folk music and listen to the lyrics and trust me, you'll laugh.
Gordon Lightfoot Turns 70
