May I chime in on this very interesting thread?
I agree with y'all on Gord's music being thoroughly appropriate for country radio.
I've seen at least one critic use the word "timeless" to describe Gord's basic style; accordingly, his work in the folk-country vein endures rather than burst and fade. To my ears, the only material which sounds dated (forgive me...) on "Songbook" represents the synthesizer-heavy material from the early- and mid- 80s, when Gord was nodding to the trends of the era. I think his '90s CDs -- "Waiting for You" and "A Painter Passing Through" -- are so much more listenable because he returned to that intimate sound which marks him as a confident artist.
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