<snip>...It's a lovely compliment," adds the Hull-born, Hamilton raised Lanois more seriously. "It's a great honour."
And none other than Canadian folk music legend Gordon Lightfoot will formally present Lanois with his star.
"Oh, that's great, I love him," says Lanois. "That sounds terrific. He's a great, great songwriter and a great man. I love everything about him and he's eccentric on top of that."
Lanois says Lightfoot asked him to produce a record several years ago but he was unavailable. However, Lanois did play guitar on a couple of tracks on Lightfoot's 1998 release, A Painter Passing Through.
"I don't know him real well, but I feel like I do," says Lanois, who had an early memorable meeting with the icon when Lanois was just a teenager outside Hamilton.
"He did a show at my high school," he says. "In fact, I was walking to the show and a Cadillac pulled up, window rolled down and it was the man himself who said, 'How do we get to the Ancaster High School?' I said, 'Follow me.' And it was a beautiful show. It was ever so simple. It was in the gym." ... <snip>
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