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The Tao of Gordon Lightfoot: Still Going Strong at 75 (and For Good Reason)
HuffPost Canada ^
| September 4, 2014
| Joel Brokaw
Posted on 09/04/2014 5:17:30 PM PDT by Squawk 8888
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To: x1stcav
Still my all-time favourite, just the second Lightfoot song I ever heard:
Don Quixote.
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posted on
09/04/2014 5:37:42 PM PDT
by
Squawk 8888
(Will steal your comments & post them on Twitter)
To: novemberslady; cripplecreek
Both were from the same album and every track on it was superb. The best was Seven Island Suite.
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posted on
09/04/2014 5:40:36 PM PDT
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Squawk 8888
(Will steal your comments & post them on Twitter)
To: cripplecreek
“Sundown” was about a wild party girl in Hollywood who, as legend has it, was with John Belushi on his last fateful night.
Just can’t recall her name...
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posted on
09/04/2014 5:40:52 PM PDT
by
newfreep
("Evil succeeds when good men do nothting" - Edmund Burke)
To: Squawk 8888
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posted on
09/04/2014 5:42:44 PM PDT
by
nuconvert
( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
To: Squawk 8888
The Canucks had a lot of talent back then. In addition to Lightfoot there was Ian and Silvia.
How can one forget ‘Someday Soon’?
Quite of few of them fought with us back then by enlisting in the US military.
I think there was actually a Medal of Honor Winner if memory serves.
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posted on
09/04/2014 5:43:49 PM PDT
by
x1stcav
(Leftism is like rust. It corrodes twenty-four hous a day.)
To: x1stcav
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.
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posted on
09/04/2014 5:47:08 PM PDT
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Squawk 8888
(Will steal your comments & post them on Twitter)
To: newfreep
IIRC she was a Canadian named Cathy Smith.
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posted on
09/04/2014 5:48:07 PM PDT
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Squawk 8888
(Will steal your comments & post them on Twitter)
To: Squawk 8888
As Churchill phrased it, ‘The five English-speaking Democracies’.
We’re responsible for the modern world.
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posted on
09/04/2014 5:50:50 PM PDT
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x1stcav
(Leftism is like rust. It corrodes twenty-four hous a day.)
To: ifinnegan
Yes he did. One of my favorites of his.
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posted on
09/04/2014 5:50:57 PM PDT
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tob2
To: Squawk 8888
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posted on
09/04/2014 5:52:28 PM PDT
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Scrambler Bob
(/s /s /s /s /s, my replies are "liberally" sprinkled with them behind every word and letter.!)
To: Squawk 8888
Very beautiful, humane and intelligent songs. Countercultural in their day. Thank you, Gordon.
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09/04/2014 5:55:04 PM PDT
by
St_Thomas_Aquinas
( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
To: GrandJediMasterYoda
To: Squawk 8888; Larry Lucido; F15Eagle
I thought Gordon Lightfoot was a boat.
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09/04/2014 6:01:57 PM PDT
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Gamecock
(Not responsible for errors resulting from posting via my "smart" phone.)
To: KC_Lion
To: bobo1
Well, that makes at least two of us who remember. I still listen to Ian and Sylvia while gardening.
To: bobo1
“Saw him in college in concert early 70s”
I wish I could have seen him back then. I finally got to see him last July when he played at Twin River casino in Rhode Island.
I came away feeling very sad. Everything that has happened to him and his fight to get back took such a toll on him. His band was really tight but they could only cover so much. It was apparent that he was often struggling.
That being said, I’m glad that I finally got to see him as I’ve enjoyed his music for most of my life.
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posted on
09/04/2014 6:05:12 PM PDT
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Stormdog
(A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
To: ex91B10
Why do you say that? “Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” is one of the manliest tunes ever written.
To: machogirl
To: Squawk 8888
He may not agree, but I think some of Gordon Lightfoot's recordings from the mid-1960's hold up remarkably well (and this is coming from someone who still HATES most "folk music" of that era). In fact, I was just listening to the Bear Family Records reissue "Lightfoot!/The Way I Feel" CD on my way home from work tonight.
Good stuff.
Mr. niteowl77
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09/04/2014 6:08:05 PM PDT
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niteowl77
(The five stages of Progressive persuasion: lecture, nudge, shove, arrest, liquidate.)
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