“Every time I hear a Gordon Lightfoot song, I wish it would never end.” ~ Bob Dylan
Had my dad not popped in an old “Gord’s Gold” tape when I was 11 years old, I would have continued ignoring the whole subject of music for who knows how long. Gord rocks, despite the fact that he’s a folk musician, and that he’s almost 70, and that he can’t sing like he used to.
Lightfoot is coming to Shea’s Performing Arts Center in Buffalo, NY on September 21st, and there’s a pre-sale, um, sale starting tomorrow morning at 10am. My dad’s buying the tickets. We will see the Gord. Oh, yes, we will see the Gord.
This will be my 6th Lightfoot concert. Can’t wait. He’s finally decided that he can’t do “Canadian Railroad Trilogy” anymore, as evidenced by recent setlists, but there will still be the regular list of classic folk tunes (”If You Could Read My Mind,” “The Wreck,” “Early Morning Rain”), a few songs from Waiting for You (my favorite), and hopefully an odd addition here or there – some non-single that he hasn’t played in a long time. It will definitely be a good night; probably just me, my dad, and my brothers.
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I’m glad to see he’s out of the hospital, following that nasty prostitution-ring shoot-up he was involved in back in ‘06.
That was a dark-time for the Gord.
Yeah, that was a real close call, no doubt.