When Gordon came onstage at Purchase College he picked up a bunch of papers lying by the microphone (might have been song requests or things to autograph, I don't know) and said either "My mail," or "thanks for the mail." Before doing "Blackberry wine" he told us that there actually is such a thing as blackberry wine, that he's had it sent to him.
He mentioned that the "House you live in" was his mom's favorite, that she told him he must never drop it from his repertoire, and he imitated her saying "Gordon." And he said that he wrote the Canadian Railroad Trilogy in three days.
Incredibly, sometime during the 2nd set he said something like "I hope I'm not going too long, to which some of the audience members yelled out "No!!!" When coming back for an encore, Gordon held out one finger emphatically, signifying that they would do one more tune, and he said "We're not going to do the Las Vegas thing of 7 or 8 encores."
I'm sorry that my memory is so bad and I can't always remember exactly what was said, and that I can't remember much more than that. Next time I'll have to pay closer attention.
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