Here's a thought- I've been thinking of burning custom GL CDs by category, & am curious as to what categories we folks here at the forum would pick & what songs you put under those designations (e.g. "songs of the sea").

Craig Merrihue

Here's a thought- I've been thinking of burning custom GL CDs by category, & am curious as to what categories we folks here at the forum would pick & what songs you put under those designations (e.g. "songs of the sea").

Craig Merrihue

Howdy again WWG,

I don't know how Gord's organization feels about burned CDs (some rigedly object,) but I've done the same thing in order to introduce Gord to friends who weren't familiar w/ his work (IYCRMM and "Fitzgerald." usually excluded.

Generally they begin to buy the albums or collections retail, and become fans like us.

Shhh, the silence you now hear is The Rez pondering . . . or catnapping. I'll give it some good thought. A fine reason to re-visit the gems.

The Rez

PS: Miss McGee - Val, do you have an insight on this question?
Val, do you have any insight on such things

WWG:

Were I to burn a custom CD for my own reverie, it would be of the priceless slow ballads of love - lived/lost/dreamed/realized/recalled.

On every album resides at least one such jewel.
Across the 4 decades I've heartlistened, I always looked at each new release for the gemstone.

At every show (front row - back row,) I've hushed breath at the debut of such a song - eyes closed.

If I lived through such an assembly, I'd do it again, for their are more arrowsongs than one CD could contain.

Hmmmm . . .

The Rez

I have tapes that I have copied from my CD's for use in the car. I have one that is my "Supertape" that has my all time favorites on it. I also have "Sad love songs", "Trains, Rain and Travel" and "Sea Songs". Obviously, there are duplicates on them. I see nothing wrong with copying for you own use and I don't see why EMP would care. I would have gladly told them how do the CD's so I wouldn't have to rearrange them. But they didn't ask.
Borderstone also has a topic somewhere about the Borderstone Tapes.

I have tapes that I have copied from my CD's for use in the car. I have one that is my "Supertape" that has my all time favorites on it. I also have "Sad love songs", "Trains, Rain and Travel" and "Sea Songs". Obviously, there are duplicates on them. I see nothing wrong with copying for you own use and I don't see why EMP would care. I would have gladly told them how do the CD's so I wouldn't have to rearrange them. But they didn't ask.
Borderstone also has a topic somewhere about the Borderstone Tapes.

Brink, I'd love to hear what songs you put under your respective categories.

I'm not so much interested, I guess in actually burning cds as I am in categorizing GL tunes & seeing which ones fans would put where.

Some of the categories I've kicked around are

"Ships, Sailing, the Sea and Waters"

"Socially Conscious, Historical, and Philosophy of Life"

Nature and Country Life"

"Songs with Women's names"

"Bluesy tunes"

"Travel and the Road"

"Fantasy & Fancy"


and of course:

"Romance" (this one could probably be broken down alot.

For example, under "Nature & Country Life" you could put:

Long River ("Lightfoot!")
Mountains & Maryann ("Did She Mention My Name?)
Pussywillows, Cat-tails (")
Bitter Green (iffy, I hear it's about a dog)
Redwood Hill ("Summer Side of Life")
Cotton Jenny (")
Love & Maple Syrup (")
Brave Mountaineers (Don Quixote)
Ode to Big Blue- (")
Seven Island Suite- ("Sundown")
Bend In the Water ("Cold On the Shoulder")
Summertime Dream (Summertime Dream)
Spanish Moss (")
Sea of Tranquility ("Dream Street Rose")
The Auctioneer (")
Blackberry Wine ("Shadows")
Whipers of the North ("Salute")
Knotty Pine ("Salute")
Restless ("Waiting for You")
Wild Strawberries (")
Ringneck Loon ("Painter Passing Through")
I Used to Be a Country Singer (")
Red Velvet (")
Uncle Toad Said (")
River of Light ("Harmony")
Flyin' Blind (")
Couchiching (")

So what say you?

Craig (aka WWG & HotBlooded MountainLove)

Brink, I'd love to hear what songs you put under your respective categories.

I'm not so much interested, I guess in actually burning cds as I am in categorizing GL tunes & seeing which ones fans would put where.

Some of the categories I've kicked around are

"Ships, Sailing, the Sea and Waters"

"Socially Conscious, Historical, and Philosophy of Life"

Nature and Country Life"

"Songs with Women's names"

"Bluesy tunes"

"Travel and the Road"

"Fantasy & Fancy"


and of course:

"Romance" (this one could probably be broken down alot.

For example, under "Nature & Country Life" you could put:

Long River ("Lightfoot!")
Mountains & Maryann ("Did She Mention My Name?)
Pussywillows, Cat-tails (")
Bitter Green (iffy, I hear it's about a dog)
Redwood Hill ("Summer Side of Life")
Cotton Jenny (")
Love & Maple Syrup (")
Brave Mountaineers (Don Quixote)
Ode to Big Blue- (")
Seven Island Suite- ("Sundown")
Bend In the Water ("Cold On the Shoulder")
Summertime Dream (Summertime Dream)
Spanish Moss (")
Sea of Tranquility ("Dream Street Rose")
The Auctioneer (")
Blackberry Wine ("Shadows")
Whipers of the North ("Salute")
Knotty Pine ("Salute")
Restless ("Waiting for You")
Wild Strawberries (")
Ringneck Loon ("Painter Passing Through")
I Used to Be a Country Singer (")
Red Velvet (")
Uncle Toad Said (")
River of Light ("Harmony")
Flyin' Blind (")
Couchiching (")

So what say you?

Craig (aka WWG & HotBlooded MountainLove)

Hi Craig,

Your comment about Bitter Green being about a dog makes me want to ask your opinion of Daylight Katy -- there was a thread going around and in it there was discussion about who Katy was: a person, a dog, a cat... I came up with dog, but, others were vehement it was not. What say you?

I will have to do this a tape at a time sorry.
Sea Songs:

Edmund
Yarmouth Castle
A Passing Ship (sort of)
Ghosts of Cape Horn
Christian Island
Maie Christine
High and Dry
Triangle
Seven Island Suite
Shadows (cause I needed another song)
Song for a Winter's Night (same as above).

Sad Love Songs

Circle is Small
Same Old Loverman
Song for a Winter's Night
Sundown
If You Could Read My Mind
Whisper my Name
I'm Not Suppose to Care
Shadows
Softly
Affair on 8th Avenue
Anything for Love
Dreamland (tape cuts off the ending)

I will have to do this a tape at a time sorry.
Sea Songs:

Edmund
Yarmouth Castle
A Passing Ship (sort of)
Ghosts of Cape Horn
Christian Island
Maie Christine
High and Dry
Triangle
Seven Island Suite
Shadows (cause I needed another song)
Song for a Winter's Night (same as above).

Sad Love Songs

Circle is Small
Same Old Loverman
Song for a Winter's Night
Sundown
If You Could Read My Mind
Whisper my Name
I'm Not Suppose to Care
Shadows
Softly
Affair on 8th Avenue
Anything for Love
Dreamland (tape cuts off the ending)

OK, Here's a Different Collection Direction Suggestion:

From a person w/ such a large catalogue of wondersongs on such a large variety of subjects, Gord's music can be organized topically in almost a natural sorting.

The lists assembled here are beautiful.

For me, things fall a bit differently - less topically and more internally. What passions bubble up? The Road to Laughter, The Need to Weep, The Pull of Joy . . . and here's one that John Stewart thought up (even has a CD available under the title)- Songs to Drive By.

How 'bout Songs to Make Love By; Songs to Daydream By; Songs to Give You Wings; Songs for Closed Eyes; Songs to Sing to Your Children; Songs of Peace; Songs of Battle; and, yes, Songs to Sing to the Sea.

Just some white clouds of pondering passing over . . .

The Rez

Hey All,

Wow! What great replies! GL fans are definitely a cut above, in terms of L.I.Q.(literary intelligence quotient)!

Thanks brink, for sharing. I agree with you on East of Midnight's "A Passing Ship" belonging to this category (sort of).

Sheryl, until last week, I always assumed Bitter Green and Daylight Katy were women (although the "waiting for her master" in the former always seemed a bit archaic). Somewhere in this forum I ran across the dog conjecture and it made perfect sense (although I ain't sure about I'd "kiss away the tears" from a mutt!)

I read your email and got out the lyrics to Daylight Katy- & I'm presently inclined to think she's a cat-"nine lives in her midnight world". Also, well off women might appear to a feline as "high-heeled friends" who open doors and fill the food and water dishes.

Rez, you've surely the soul of a poet. I think it's bloody brilliant to categorize GL songs by the emotions evoked, & I'm gonna play with your suggestions & see where that leads.

Thanks & I hope this keeps building,

WWG (aka HotBlooded MountainLove)

Hey All,

Wow! What great replies! GL fans are definitely a cut above, in terms of L.I.Q.(literary intelligence quotient)!

Thanks brink, for sharing. I agree with you on East of Midnight's "A Passing Ship" belonging to this category (sort of).

Sheryl, until last week, I always assumed Bitter Green and Daylight Katy were women (although the "waiting for her master" in the former always seemed a bit archaic). Somewhere in this forum I ran across the dog conjecture and it made perfect sense (although I ain't sure about I'd "kiss away the tears" from a mutt!)

I read your email and got out the lyrics to Daylight Katy- & I'm presently inclined to think she's a cat-"nine lives in her midnight world". Also, well off women might appear to a feline as "high-heeled friends" who open doors and fill the food and water dishes.

Rez, you've surely the soul of a poet. I think it's bloody brilliant to categorize GL songs by the emotions evoked, & I'm gonna play with your suggestions & see where that leads.

Thanks & I hope this keeps building,

WWG (aka HotBlooded MountainLove)

Yes Rez, I think I too shall make some new tapes per your suggestions. Might be a bit interesting. hmmm

Yes Rez, I think I too shall make some new tapes per your suggestions. Might be a bit interesting. hmmm