I must admit that inside my truck, you will find thousands of tapes and CD's, and none of them go beyond the year 1990, except for a few Neil Young and Gordon Lightfoot albums. Gordon Lightfoot wrote and performed all of his songs the same way that Jim Croce and Neil Young had done long ago. In today's world, most the the music you hear from all of these 'hip' artists are not songs that came from their hearts. They are songs that came from their wallets and corporate managers, that have bought the song's off of songwriters that only get a paycheck and no public recognition. That is why I will buy a Gordon Lightfoot album because they are songs written from his heart. He is the songwriter singing the song, the way it should be. It is hard to believe that there is still so much song-writing talent that exists out there, but no body wants to see them perform. In my mind, the songwriters of then, and the seemingly non-existant but existant songwriters of today are my heros!
|