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Topic: Thanks for the Stories, Music and Memories...

It's been a few days without anyone saying anything, So I thought it would be a nice touch to thank our departed friend Gordon Lightfoot for his contributions to our lives.

Like many of us, one of the earliest fingerpicking tunes I tried to learn was one of This relatively unknown Canadian fellow's. Back in '69 I was straying away from the classical pieces I had been trying to get my head around. But not really digging into the Pop/Rock/Surf stuff hitting the airwaves in and around Southern California.
Neil Diamond, Gordon Lightfoot, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, and Peter Paul & Mary were more my speed not to mention that folk music suited the tone of my nylon strung classical.

Early Morning Rain, Carefree Highway, and eventually Don Quixote, wandered into my repertoire and still hang out in some dusty corner of my memory punctuated by the hiss of a needle skittering along the groove of a 78 platter of vinyl.

Thanks for the memories, and rest well my Friend. 

"what is this quintessence of dust?"  - Shakespeare
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Re: Thanks for the Stories, Music and Memories...

Doug

That was a great post.
I listened to a podcast the other day discussing Gordon and Bob Dylan was on it, saying the Gordon Lightfoot was one his biggest, if not THE biggest inspirations in his songwriting.
Apparently at some point they were very close friends

Thanks for sharing - I think I will take a listen to the Edmund Fitgerald by him now.

Jim     

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Re: Thanks for the Stories, Music and Memories...

I remember one gig I played "If you could read my mind", and one of the older guys was telling me about his (unknown to me at the time) large number of hits, I looked him up and borrowed a "Greatest hits" from our local library, he had some great songs.

Ironically I was playing that song the evening before I heard about his passing, which was unusual - it's in my list of 'B' songs I play (for me, that's "songs I play OK, or good when in the mood), and was the last song I played that evening.

RIP song smith ...     

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