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Originally posted by Mike Dixon:
I'll second John's comments. Valerie's site was like a home away from home .... I loved it !!
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OK Thanks Val for your thanks.
I am curious to know exactly which of the myriad features of Val's site are most strongly missed
as I have some ideas for the one I found most useful and whilst fully respecting her intellectual property rights I will in due course be in touch with Valerie to se what might be possible
So please those who are interested please elaborate accordingly
John Fowles
"Mine was forever and indelibly altered when I first heard "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald." An eerie and woeful tale about the sinking of an overloaded iron ore freighter in Lake Superior in 1975, the twelve-minute acoustic ballad rang with the gloomy pitch and tenor of the working-class soul. Like most of Gordon Lightfoot's lyrics, the song has the bare-bones strength of a Hemingway novel, and Lightfoot's voice is somehow woeful and comforting at the same time"
from:-
http://www.portlandmercury.com/portl...87&issue=25463
I don't know which version this reviewer was thinking of but twelve minutes is a considerable exageration methinks!!