Before I ever listened to GL's music, I thought I never cared for the sound of anything remotely country in most music. The song that helped me become a GL fan was The Wreck, but little did I ever know that there was SO much more to this man's career than just that. Believe it or not, less than 2 years ago, I had never even HEARD of GL! I heard Wreck several times on the radio and loved it (and believe it or not I think that it was the GG2 version) and I kept waiting for the DJ to say who sang the song, and when I heard the name Gordon Lightfoot, I checked his name on Amazon and saw that he had all these albums, and then purchased Sundown and Summertime Dream first, and then I went from there.
I loved the folk-country sound of these songs and I did not even realize (in retrospect) that I wasn't forcing myself to like the genre, either. As I am getting more and more of his albums, something extremely ironic (for my case, however) is happening...
For the first time ever, I am having trouble loving non-folky-country music (other kinds of music that I listened to that I thought I loved...and of course, I still do LIKE) in the way that I currently love GL's style of music. I listen to all the other non-GL albums (non-folk-country) that I still do like/love, but sometimes a voice in my head goes, "Well, I think I like folk better, or music with a country sound," and I used to dislike (or THOUGHT I disliked) that kind of sound...I still DON'T care to listen to any country music on the radio though...this "old-school" country sound in GL's music is the kind I seem to love...it's just that I used to be so averse to country-sounds in music, and now that I have grown to love GL's music, I am having TROUBLE (LOL) loving other types of music equally.
From one extreme to the next, right? :D :D :D
[ August 06, 2005, 23:09: Message edited by: Shazia ]
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