Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 09:59:49 -0500
Reply-To: Max Wellhouse <dimwittedmoose@CFU.NET>
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From: Max Wellhouse <dimwittedmoose@CFU.NET>
Subject: Re: Gordon Lightfoot
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Sometimes I open my mouth just long enough to change feet, so I guess
I better check out Mr. Rice's covers!!
DM&FS
At 09:16 AM 6/15/2008, Jake de Villiers wrote:
>Lightfoot is such a great songwriter, but he never really did have much of a
>voice! Don't get upset, I saw Gordo way back when it was just him and
>Dennis Pendrith with Red Shea on guitar.
>
>The album 'Tony sings Gordon' is a GREAT CD - Lightfoot's melodies and Tony
>Rice's plaintive voice are an inspired match and the song structures force
>Tony to play to the point. Both my kids love it too.
>
>On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 6:22 AM, Brien Dews <vwvanagon@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > My 7 year old son recently became fascinated with Great Lakes ship wrecks,
> > most notably the Edmund Fitzgerald. So I played Lightfoot's ballad of the
> > Fitz for him. He has since taken up the guitar so he can play that song. He
> > is getting quite good. Kinda neat that someone so young is interested in
> > Gordon Lightfoot.
> > Brien
> >
> > On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 7:43 AM, J Stewart <fonman4277@comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> > > As part of my Father's Day weekend, the wife and I went to Gordon
> > Lightfoot
> > > last
> > > night at Wolftrap in Vienna, Virginia. Took the Westy, got there early
> > and
> > > had
> > > dinner and a bottle of wine in the camper-during a thunderstorm-which
> > made
> > > me
> > > thankful I didn't get lawn seats! He opened with "Cotton Jenny" and then
> > > did
> > > "Carefree Highway". I've seen Gordon Lightfoot at least 5 times and this
> > is
> > > the
> > > first time he as ever done "Carefree Highway". Always wondered what he
> > has
> > > against that song? Opening song I was shocked, his voice is going,
> > sounded
> > > very
> > > weak, then got a bit stronger as the concert went on, but seemed to come
> > > and go.
> > > When we got home, I looked him up on the Internet, and I did not realize
> > he
> > > is
> > > 70 years old! I thought has was around 60. Anyway, well worth the $40.00
> > > per
> > > ticket price, even if his voice was a bit weak. Jeff
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Brien K Dews CC21-AWCI
> > Rockford, MI
> > www.allgoodtime.com
> > www.busesbythebeach.com
> >
>
>
>
>--
>Jake
>1984 Vanagon GL
>1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
>Crescent Beach, BC
>www.crescentbeachguitar.com
>http://subyjake.googlepages.com/mydixiedarlin%27
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