My favorite GL song with out a doubt is "If You Could Read My Mind". This is the first song of his I ever heard and between the voice and guitar I was hooked. I was in my teens and and my father had just died. I was going through all the emotional trials personal relationships at that age can bring. The lyrics cut right to the heart of things and as an emotionally bleeding teen I was the "Hero" that "often fails". Later came "Sundown", "Carefree Highway", "The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald" (I had it on 45 rpm vinyl!). I am like so many other fans, there are noneof his songs that I don't like.
It will always be "If You Could Read My Mind" that transports me back to a time when I needed to hear someone else going through the same trials as I. I still get misty eyed and remember a different time of life when I hear it by surprise on the radio. Thanks Gordon, for bringing me through it all.
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