Hi all!
First I want to say this is my first post on this forum, and I hope it will be a good one. I've been in a musical family all my life, with now, one uncle who now tours the bluegrass festivals (he was out here in Manitou Springs last summer), playing many different string instruments (banjo-fiddle-guitar-piano, etc.) including his own hammered dulcimer...a beautiful instrument if you've ever listened to one...he even took the time to teach me how to play, and gave me the first one he ever built!
Shazia, I agree that Endless Wire is a very sad, "painfilled" album, mostly, and I did a lot of tearing up when I first heard "Dreamland, If Children had Wings, and The Circle is Small." But when Hangdog Hotel Room played, I felt as if he is "picking himself up, dusting off, to get back into the life play again"...at least that's what I hear in it.
Rez, in the album I have, he says, "treatin the wrong girl right." What happened there, because I'd heard on the radio "rubbin" also. I don't know...
I've been listening to this album off and on since 1976 (I think) and from the first time I heard it...I fell completely in love with the whole thing, and in my own way, with Gordon, himself.
I can listen to this album over and over again (which applies to any of his songs), and it won't bother me, unlike some other music...getting old after just a couple times around.
This is one album, along with Gord's Gold I, that I lost track of until this year...I divorced back then too...and have tried to get them back from my ex...do I need to continue?
I really don't think there is a song he CAN'T sing, no matter the genre... And yes, you definitely CAN dance to his music, I know, I have many, many times over.
I know I reiterate this...I adore the man, the artist, and his music. I'll be so grateful when, at long last, I could get the chance to meet him.
Does anyone know how I can get tickets to one of his concerts in either IL this month, or NV next month...or would they already be sold out?