Rare (In America) GL album find!!
 

Friday (payday) on the 18th I went to a new (oldies/used) record store called Revolver Records in uptown Phoenix.

Along with some more of the LPs I lost in '06 I found a $2.00 but in greeat shape copy of instrumentalist Neil Chotem's "Gordon Lightfoot Instrumental Songbook"! :cool: :)

I'm guessing this album is 40 years old because the songs he and his group cover are all UA.

Softly
The Gypsy
The Way I Feel
Bitter Green
Long River
Pussywillows/Cat*Tails
Crossroads

and more!!

Ironically,Mr. Chotem passed away this past February and i do have 1 other LP by him,which I actually bought for it's cover.

What an awesomne find this is! ;)

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You got a great deal on that, "Gordon Lightfoot Instrumental Songbook" Borderstone ! Really glad for you. :)

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Thanks Jess. :) Surprised the heck out of me too.

Thought I'd found a rare studio album by Gordon for a moment. Then I'm like,"Oh hey,this is cool too". :cool:

Wouldn't pass that up for anything.....even a Mariah Carey album! LOL!

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:biggrin:

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congrats on the great find!!!

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OK this is not that rare a vinyl album. it very often is on offer on ebay. Indeed right now although there are no private sellers there is at "coolforever"'s Ebay store a copy being offerred admittedly at rather more than Mr Sober Rodent's bargain find:-
http://cgi.ebay.com/NEIL-CHOTEM-LP-S...2em118Q2el1247

this contains a nice image of the attractive album sleeve:-
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/LIGHTFO...ghtfoot_lp.jpg
there are in fact several albums of instrumental versions of Gord's songs but IMHO they all have one glaring fault that makes them in the end pretty boring: they do not have any lyrics. Another such is by the "Mariposa Reeds":-
http://cgi.ebay.com/CANADIANA-MARIPO...2em118Q2el1247
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/LIGHTFO...s/mariposa.jpg

Plus one that I bought back in 1988 in Ottawa:-
http://cgi.ebay.com/JOHN-ARPIN-Love-...2em118Q2el1247
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/LIGHTFO...John_arpin.jpg
One instrumental CD that I do have is Tapestries
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/LIGHTFO...tapestries.jpg
somewhere I have a larger image than that but I know it is on an external hard drive that I am unable to access right now
because my desktop insists that that drive containing nearly 40 GB worth of valuable (to me anyway) archived files requires formatting which I do not for one moment accept
However whilst trying to find it on line I did find on amazon.com:-
Tapestries The Music of Gordon Lightfoot
Perry Novak & Bob Volkman with Ernest Lyons (Author)
which turned out to be not a book but the same audio cd on offer by
used_cd-universe for an optimistic $50.00

I bought my copy on Yonge Street on November 1999 at Sam The Record Man's emporiam

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Very unusual John, on my cover,the brown paint is over to the left more,not in the center. The left side has a pinkish hue to it as well.
(and some dumb bunny's initials!) :rolleyes: