There’s this wonderful and remarkable universal aspect to Lightfoot’s music. I was doing a set at a Coffee House in Pittsburgh in ’72, and I sang “Did She Mention My Name”, and after the set a Russian defector came up to me and remarked that it reminded him of home, and he gave me a list of other songs that he’d like to hear in the next set, so we went with “Bitter Green” and “Affair on Eight Avenue”. Another time I was in Capri, and got challenged to perform on stage, I did “Long Way Back Home” and “Second Cup of Coffee”, and the response was remarkable. In Germany, “Can’t Depend On Love” and “Mother of A Miner’s Child” seemed to be favorites. Nonetheless, the same type of reaction to, and awareness of, Lightfoot occurred in a number of small venues throughout Europe and Africa, actually, as I was traveling on business and playing on the side. Lightfoot’s music has this global reach and significance that is simply fantastic.

There’s this wonderful and remarkable universal aspect to Lightfoot’s music. I was doing a set at a Coffee House in Pittsburgh in ’72, and I sang “Did She Mention My Name”, and after the set a Russian defector came up to me and remarked that it reminded him of home, and he gave me a list of other songs that he’d like to hear in the next set, so we went with “Bitter Green” and “Affair on Eight Avenue”. Another time I was in Capri, and got challenged to perform on stage, I did “Long Way Back Home” and “Second Cup of Coffee”, and the response was remarkable. In Germany, “Can’t Depend On Love” and “Mother of A Miner’s Child” seemed to be favorites. Nonetheless, the same type of reaction to, and awareness of, Lightfoot occurred in a number of small venues throughout Europe and Africa, actually, as I was traveling on business and playing on the side. Lightfoot’s music has this global reach and significance that is simply fantastic.

I've also heard him in a bar in Berlin, a beach cabana in Gibraltar and a pub in Udon Thani (NE Thailand)

I've also heard him in a bar in Berlin, a beach cabana in Gibraltar and a pub in Udon Thani (NE Thailand)