I saw this this morning. I like his music. Always put me in a good mood, even if it was a melancholy subject.

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clm
Nashville, TN
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He alone immortalized the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald. There’s not a November storm In Michigan where this is not played.

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maybe it's a canadian thing, but you can't learn to play guitar and drink beer without learning this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv8zyBi4ZXk

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http://howtobeswiss.blogspot.ch/

I read about his death late last night. I had 4 of his songs on my playlist, and I bought four more this morning.

“The house that you live in will never fall down, if you pity the stranger who stands at your door.”
- Lightfoot

There is a pretty good documentary about him on Netflix. Incredible talent.

Thanks for the heads up, I'll add to my list!

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The secret of a long life is you try not to shorten it.
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Having grown up in the Great Lakes State, I always felt that the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald was "Michigan's tragedy." In a way, it surely is.

But I was pretty surprised as an adult, when doing some reading on the theories on the cause of the sinking, that there was barely a Michigander on board (three men were born there but two resided elsewhere, I believe). The crew had members from around the Midwest, and a few Floridians, but was more a crew from Ohio (13 of the 29 men) than from anywhere else.

Apple Music has a GL Essentials playlist of 29 songs. Some of lesser known songs are even better than his big hits.

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clm
Nashville, TN
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Late to the memorial service here, and I never paid much attention to his music though I recognized his name and a few of his songs. I read recently a small article online in which one of my favorite musicians said he listened to Gord's Gold on repeat growing up and it's still his favorite record. It was several months ago and I don't remember which artist said it (Danny Carey of Tool, I think, but maybe Dave Grohl? Probably neither, the way memory works) but it was not a guy you would associate with 70's Canadian Folk.

So I started a Gordon Lightfoot radio station on YouTube Music on Saturday morning and headed up to the farm to clear a fence line of some limbs from the recent wind storm. He's been stuck in my head ever since. Sundown captures a vibe that few have replicated on vinyl, in my listening experience.

Inject this directly into my veins please.

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The devil made me do it the first time, second time I done it on my own - W

I was chatting with my step-mother a couple months ago and she mentioned she still has my dad's old records, mostly Gordon Lightfoot and Roger Whitaker stuff. When she's done snowbirding for the season she's going to box them up and send them to me. My son has no clue what is about to happen to his record player.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gord_Downie. Check out Tragically Hip. His funeral was "basically" a state funeral up in Canada

mck414 wrote:

I was chatting with my step-mother a couple months ago and she mentioned she still has my dad's old records, mostly Gordon Lightfoot and Roger Whitaker stuff. When she's done snowbirding for the season she's going to box them up and send them to me. My son has no clue what is about to happen to his record player.

Thanks.. had to bring up Roger.. went to Youtube found this.. got chill's




Always been a ballad man.

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Just Triing
Triathlete since 9:56:39 AM EST Aug 20, 2006.
Be kind English is my 2nd language. My primary language is Dave it's a unique evolution of English.

I was thinking about this song the other day, it's almost as if you could read my mind

Check out the song "The Circle is Small". Sad one about a guy who knows his woman is cheating with a friend.

He and John Prine were great friends. Gordon is in the audience for John's performance at the House of Strombo, one of his last (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5Rkm_dqm7A), about the 5:50 mark. Check that out on YouTube. John acknowledges Gordon in a story about a song called "Far From Me", an old Prine classic, and you can see Gordon singing along in the crowd.

After he died I realized that I knew his name, knew he was popular here but I couldn’t name any of his songs.

I recognized Sundown when I googled his music. But first listen… Holy shit, this song is way better than I remember it being.

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How does Danny Hart sit down with balls that big?

I think I was 17 when Locked in the Trunk of a Car hit. I didn’t know any of their songs at the time. They quickly became one of my favourite bands.

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How does Danny Hart sit down with balls that big?