Hi Brink,
To answer your question, no, I didn't rediscover Lightfoot, never stopped listening. He's been my favorite since early highschool years when I found out all those songs I loved and heard so rarely were sung and written by the same man. Funny, huh? I'll be 40 on Thursday, so I've been his fan for some time now.
I started checking out Amazon (a coworker pointed me in that direction for hard to find stuff)on the net during my lunch hour to find his CDs. Then I saw a little newslink blurb thing and clicked on it. That's how I found out he had been seriously ill. Scared the pee outta me. So I started scanning the web looking for news, and here you all were. : )
I used to check this site out on my lunch break. I just got internet at home last week, and when I saw the post for the IL video, that just did it for me.
It's frustrating how little news there is of him here. ANNOYING even.
Now I have you guys to remind me of all the good songs I'm missing while getting my CD collection as up to date as my album collection. And those Toronto folks to keep me up on news of GL.
Glad to be here,
Laurel
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