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"...Sundown, you better take care...."
Posted on 11/17/2022 9:14:55 AM PST by shadowlands1960
When I was 24 (1982) I went to see Gordon at the Opera House in San Francisco. It was the middle of a recession and the house was mostly empty... probably around 300 people. I had bought a nosebleed seat way up in the rafters.... Gordon when he came on looked around and said "Wow, things are tough all over." He then asked the people in the lower seats if they minded if he invited the people in the 'cheap seats' to come down and join them.. no one objected so I went down and grabbed a good seat. Gordon then went on to put on one the best live shows I've ever seen.. lighting acoustics, his voice... everything was great and he was playing like he was playing to thousands. Great respect for this man.
Beautiful.
And we’re still in the middle of a recession.
My youth, growing up in the Detroit area...listening to CKLW.
Great singer when singers actually wrote and played their songs without “digital enhancements”.
They blamed Reagan for that recession. It was the result of the run-away inflation of the late 70s and the actions of the Federal Reserve to combat it. I remember around 1984 I started seeing the first ‘help wanted; signs I had ever seen in my adult life, popping up all over... so Reaganomics did work after all...
Well, last week I did a thread here on the Edmund Fitzgerald complete with link to the Lightfoot song on YouTube.
Very nicely done. Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is one of the truly great folk songs. I don’t listen to the radio often, but if that comes on, I always stop and listen.
My favorite singer.
A great singer for what that’s worth. A great carpenter and plumber made more difference in my life. But nobody has ever heard of him.
“...the legend lives on...
Beautiful.
Norm MacDonald’s impression of Gordon Lightfoot singing “Maggie May” (the Rod Stewart song):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIK_0pCfppA
“If I find you been creepin round my back stairs”
I put up an Edmund Fitzgerald thread last year but forgot when November 10th came around this year. We should make a tradition of it... that song ‘matters....’ as does it’s subject.
I like him… relaxing and thoughtful music.
I’m guessing the Carpenter is Jesus, but who is the plumber? Have I missed something on my path to salvation?
That man wrote some beautiful love songs.
His RR trilgy wasn’t too shabby either.
Heh.. it sounds more like ‘Flogging Molly’ doing Maggie May...
He should get together with Edmund Fitzgerald and write something about the winds of November.
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