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LionHearted · 02-01-2005, 10:21 PM

This is my first post on this forum.

I joined to read and share my interest in Gordon Lightfoot. My story:

I was in a Home Depot one summer afternoon a few years ago to get some items for a project I was working on. I went along collecting the materials I needed at the store when I noticed a sweet and mellow sound through the public speakers that afternoon. I stopped to hear it more clearly -- it was sounded familiar. All I could make out was "Every Highway..." I made a mental note to be sure and look it up at a later time.

So I did just that, some time later. I discovered that it wasn't "Every Highway" but rather "Carefree Highway" and that the artist was Gordon Lightfoot. I just had to have that song! I made a trip to my bookstore and purchased the Sundown album. I can't tell you the joy that this fine album has brought to me in my life! Call it fate that I discovered Gord that summer afternoon at Home Depot, but I became a huge Gord fan upon my purchase of Sundown. Every song had so much meaning to me - so much depth and color.

Well, I don't want to get too sappy here. But I will say that some of my favorites are, for sure, Carefree Highway, but also Early Morning Rain, For Lovin' Me, Go-go round, the Railroad Trilogy, Summer side of Life, and a special favorite is If You Could Read My Mind. Edmund Fitzgerald is just so meaningful to me - one of my top favorites. I could go on and on!

Three songs in paticular have special meaning to me: The Watchman's Gone, Circle of Steel and just my absolute top song is SEVEN ISLAND SUITE.

I live in central Pennsylvania where the ridges and valleys of the Appalachians shape the land. Picture me traveling in my Jeep on a crisp Fall afternoon with the windows down and Gord playing along with the sky and the ridgetops and the verdant land and farms -- that is what Gordon means to me. He is quite an inspiration...

"We went walking on the high side of the bay on a chilly morn
And we saw how leaves had fallen on the beds where trees were born
Any man in his right mind could not fail to be made aware
Any woman with a gift of wisdom would not seek her answers there..."

02-01-2005, 10:21 PM	#1
LionHearted Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Central Pennsylvania Posts: 1	This is my first post on this forum. I joined to read and share my interest in Gordon Lightfoot. My story: I was in a Home Depot one summer afternoon a few years ago to get some items for a project I was working on. I went along collecting the materials I needed at the store when I noticed a sweet and mellow sound through the public speakers that afternoon. I stopped to hear it more clearly -- it was sounded familiar. All I could make out was "Every Highway..." I made a mental note to be sure and look it up at a later time. So I did just that, some time later. I discovered that it wasn't "Every Highway" but rather "Carefree Highway" and that the artist was Gordon Lightfoot. I just had to have that song! I made a trip to my bookstore and purchased the Sundown album. I can't tell you the joy that this fine album has brought to me in my life! Call it fate that I discovered Gord that summer afternoon at Home Depot, but I became a huge Gord fan upon my purchase of Sundown. Every song had so much meaning to me - so much depth and color. Well, I don't want to get too sappy here. But I will say that some of my favorites are, for sure, Carefree Highway, but also Early Morning Rain, For Lovin' Me, Go-go round, the Railroad Trilogy, Summer side of Life, and a special favorite is If You Could Read My Mind. Edmund Fitzgerald is just so meaningful to me - one of my top favorites. I could go on and on! Three songs in paticular have special meaning to me: The Watchman's Gone, Circle of Steel and just my absolute top song is SEVEN ISLAND SUITE. I live in central Pennsylvania where the ridges and valleys of the Appalachians shape the land. Picture me traveling in my Jeep on a crisp Fall afternoon with the windows down and Gord playing along with the sky and the ridgetops and the verdant land and farms -- that is what Gordon means to me. He is quite an inspiration... "We went walking on the high side of the bay on a chilly morn And we saw how leaves had fallen on the beds where trees were born Any man in his right mind could not fail to be made aware Any woman with a gift of wisdom would not seek her answers there..."