Posted on 09/04/2014 5:17:30 PM PDT by Squawk 8888
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yF8lJjtQRM
You can search utube, but this is in the 80’s when he appeared with Ian & Sylvia. Did a few songs with them.
I alway liked “Sit Down Young Stranger”, thought is was his best, although some didn’t. Poetry.
My current favorite:
Love the worn patina on that old Gibson guitar.
Some of the Canadian were fabulous. Ian & Sylvia, Gordon Lightfoot & Ann Murray.
When suppertime came, the old cook came on deck
Sayin' "Fellas, it's too rough to feed ya"
At seven PM a main hatchway caved in
He said, "Fellas, it's been good to know ya"
The captain wired in he had water comin' in
And the good ship and crew was in peril
And later that night when his lights went out of sight
Came the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Nice to see him out there still working. I seen him in a small opera house back in the 80s.
He uses a capo.
I don’t let my students use a capo.
I teach them to play barre chords.
OK. So I’m a guitar snob.
Sue me. LOL! :-)
(Seriously, though, I hope I am still writing and performing at 75. God Bless him.)
North Phoenix
Whenever we drive up the North Shore from Duluth to the Canadian border I always sing the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald to the wife. I love that song and for that area to at.
West of “Carefree”.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Arizona/@33.8018396,-112.1223094,13z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x872b08ebcb4c186b:0x423927b17fc1cd71
LOL,
There is a local shopping plaza that makes me want to do shower after going there. Pittsford Plaza. It has Trader Joe’s, and Barnes and Noble plus an “indie” movie theater. The coexist bumper stickers on all the Prious’ make me want to shower! Only go there in my Sequoia just to piss them off.
Great post. Thanks. Timeless music. Incredible singer/songwriter.
Thanks - yes, it was Cathy Smith
Always loved his music. Canadian Railroad Trilogy was my favorite. Thanks for posting this.
“I alway liked “Sit Down Young Stranger”, thought is was his best, although some didn’t. Poetry.”
That was my late mother’s favorite Gordon Lightfoot song. She wore out my album playing it.
Thanks for the link.
I saw him in concert too in the early 70’s at Brown Spring Week End.
My favorite song as a kid.
Now I spend about thirty minutes a day riding on Carefree Hwy through Scottsdale, Cave Creek and Desert Hills every day.
I guess it was fate.
“A lot of Canadians did enlist with US military to serve in Vietnam, just as a lot of Americans joined our military 1939-1941. Shared values trumps government policy.”
The Canadians were OUTSTANDING during WW2. They were still part of Britain and Britain was going to get all they could from them...but they were still OUTSTANDING.
What a bummer.
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