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Old 01-18-2011, 12:07 PM   #5
johnfowles
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Default Re: Tom Russell blog - Mar.2009

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Originally Posted by Jim Nasium View Post
I am a BIG Tom Russell fan, if you get a chance to see him live, go, he is outstanding, IMHO
Somewhere on this site is a recording of TR telling this story in concert, plus him performing said song.
the somewhere Jimbo2 is at:-
http://www.corfid.com/vbb/showthread...hlight=russell
which is of course a thread that you yourself started way back in June 2008
At the time there was some discussion about the link to the mp3 and I said I had downloaded it. from ya bloody hoo
I have now rechecked and it is still on Tom's Yahoo group site
called The Tom Russell Chronicles at:-
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TomRussell/
If you already have a Yahoo ID sign in then click the join button,then enter the riff raff barringCAPTCHA and click on the files link on the left to open:-
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TomRussell/files/
(you have to be a member of that group to be able to access the files)
scroll down to where it clearly says
Gordon Lightfoot story.mp3
Gordon Lightfoot story told by TR
then if you right click that link and "save target as" etc you should get the
2.23MB (2292KB) 4:53 mp3
Tom's story is much as reproduced above except that "Then he’s on stage, singing an old song" that song was no less than an obscure but "beautiful" ditty so beloved by our moderator person about Tagging Along or something like that

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Originally Posted by RM View Post
Using the same TR blog, this Australian fellow includes full versions of some of Lightfoot's lesser-known tunes.

http://www.timegoesby.net/weblog/201...lightfoot.html
Many thanks Ron for that link
a superb blog page by Peter Tibbles from Melbourne
(somebody else who obviously appreciates "Cabaret")
on that page I spotted a link somewhere to "A View From England" that led to:-
http://brilliantbritain.blogspot.com/
which had yet another link to
"What did you say? American English vs British English"
a page at
http://brilliantbritain.blogspot.com...nglish-vs.html
full of useful comparisons such as
Americans (and Canadians named Lightfoot) say cute , Brits say lovely

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