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Date Posted: 01:39:44 04/02/00 Sun
Author: SunErica
Author Host/IP: 98a631ef.ipt.aol.com / 152.166.49.239
Subject: Re: Lightfoot
In reply to: Roast Beef 's message, "Lightfoot" on 00:04:37 04/02/00 Sun

> After seeing Gordon Lighfoot's "Canadian Railroad
> Trilogy" in Burton's list of tunes I wonder if anyone
> has heard Gordon's "A Painter Passing Through" release
> from 98? My wife and I saw him play here last year and
> we bought his latest CD that week. Wow is it terrific!
> He even does a couple non-originals but the best ones
> are his. My favorites are "Drifters", "Ringneck Loon",
> Boathouse", "Uncle Toad Said", and the title tune. If
> I had to pick a Gordon Lightfoot tune I'd lean towards
> "Cherokee Bend". And by the way, I played the hell out
> of "Gordon Lightfoot Does Maggie May" on my show when
> I first got UC&A. It's hilarious-what a hoot!

Yep, I've got APPT, and its wonderful. Like I said in chat, Gordon and Burton are two of my favorite singer/songwriters and I just love hearing about them in the same place. Uncle Toad Said is wonderful..."sway to the left, sway to the right..."
Have you heard his new Box Set? Its called Songbook and if you're a fan, I think you'd really like it. It consist of four discs and 88 songs, including 18 previously unreleased tunes, some of which are so great, one would wonder why in the world Gordon would not see fit to have released them in the first place. You've gotta hear Stone Cold Sober, if you haven't already!
Finding a song of Gordon's that's my ALL time favorite would be difficult. Love Trilogy, but also adore Wreck, Bitter Green, Pony Man, Early Morning Rain and on and on. Cherokee Bend is damn cool too.
I'll always associate Burton and Gordon because it was my appreciation of GL that lead me to "discover" BC. I know many of you who have been fans since the begining might roll your eyes at the fact that I've only been a big fan these past couple of years. But the sad fact is, when I came of age in the eighties the music wasn't all that great. Of course as a teen I THOUGHT that Karma Chameleon was the epitome of great songwriting...but as I grew up, my tastes improved..and I started listening to the music that I had sort of just missed out on when I was a little kid, as well as the classic songs that came around before I was born.
I live in deep South Fla, so songs that might have been standards up in the Northland for years after their chart success where rarely heard down here after they slipped off of those charts.
Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald was one of those songs. I heard it not in 1976 when it came out, but late one night driving home in 1996! It was the most amazing song I'd ever heard and from that moment, I was hooked on Lightfoot.
Cut ahead a few months and I'm on the internet reading the Lightfoot newsgroup one of the items is about Burton Cummings, and this imitation he does of Gordon Lightfoot. Of course, I had to get it and when I did,I thought it was awessome...but I still didn't realize WHO Burton was...fast forward a few more months down the road and a friend sends me an old tape of the Tears are Not Enough Video, which was Canadian entertainment's contribution to African Famine relief in the 80s. I got it to see Gordon's performance, but it also featured Burton, not only participating in the title song, but also had a clip of him singing Stand Tall. God, did I love that song..and just like with Lightfoot, I became an instant fan and had to hear more. The thing is, I always loved the Guess Who songs that I'd heard, but this sort of brought it all together and allowed me to put a face and name with a voice that I'd always admired.
One cool experience that involved my great liking for both of these singers happened last year in Toronto. I was there with a group of Gordon fans to see his Massey Hall concert series. Before the show, a bunch of us went to Sam the Record Man to look around. One of my friends handed me a CD...Burton's CD, newly released in that format along with three other Burton Cumming's solo albums. They were on sale for a "can't beat" price, so I picked up all four of them. I just thought it was so fitting that I'd find those wonderful CDs of Burton's, while on a trip to see Gordon. Thinking of that always makes me smile. Gosh I love Canada!(-: I brought back a sticker with a beautiful maple leaf and affixed it to the subwoofer above my computer. Somehow for me that really says it all. I may live among the palm trees, but I'll always have a Maple Leaf soul.
Erica

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