This is a great question and it brought back some interesting memories.I was 11 or 12 during the mid 60's. My parents would drop me off for the summer(school vacation) at my grandparents (from Slovakia) farm in the Eastern townships just 1 hour south of Montreal and near the U.S.A. border. No TV, radio only for the farmer's weather forcast but my uncle had a record player.He had only three albums. Harry Belefonte,The Kingston Trio and Lightfoot!( I believe his first album) So the first Gord song that I ever heard was "Rich Man's Spiritual" the first cut on the album. I cut my musical teeth on The way I Feel, Early Morning Rain,I'm Not Sayin', and Oh, Linda,which my uncle told me had a "beatnik" beat, so it was really cool. Sometimes Gord's songs were the only english words that I would hear for weeks at a time. He had a very captive audience and he really did capture my imagination some 35 years ago.These days,when I listen to the whole album, it brings back wonderful memories of a skinny kid helping his grandparents work the beautiful Canadian soil.
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