Hi folks,
I had the pleasure of seeing Lightfoot last night at the NAC here in Ottawa. Simply put, it was a great show. Gordie's voice is a little thinner than last year's Massey shows, but the music was as good as ever. His picking hand seemed to not be working as has been the rumour over the past few months. He was using his thumb, but that's about it. However, Terry and the boys filled in nicely and it sounded the same as ever. Lightfoot was very personable and made quite a few jokes. He said when he was in Regina, the Rolling Stones were also in town and that some of them had come over to see him! He also said the band saw their first snowflakes in Winnipeg! He mentioned the show in Prince George and how they had to take down the glass in the hockey arena they played in and how half the "hold darn town showed up!".
Here's the setlist as best as I can recall. It was interesting to note that he opened the second set with the Wreck.
Triangle
Cotton Jenny
14 Karat Gold
Never Too Close
A Painter Passing Through
Waiting For You
Clouds of Loneliness
Beautiful
Carefree Highway
Ribbon of Darkness
Sundown
The Watchman's Gone
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Alberta Bound
Hangdog Hotel Room
All The Lovely Ladies
Shadows
Rainy Day People
In My Fashion
Make Way for the Lady
If You Could Read My Mind
Canadian Railroad Trilogy
Sit Down Young Stranger (AMAZING!)
Baby Step Back
Early Morning Rain
Old Dan's Records
Highlights included Hangdog Hotel Room (Gord spoke of staying up all night with Kristofferson, Jerry Jeff Walker, and Dan Kershaw), Sit Down Young Stranger (spot on!), The Wreck (31st anniversary of the sinking last night and Gord mentioned that), CRT was note for note perfect, and The Watchman's Gone was perfect too. I think Mike Heffernan is using some new string sounds because the strings on 14 Karat Gold sounded like a real orchestra was playing with the band rather that the usual synthesized strings. Very cool!
A great show overall! Can't wait for Massey next week!
Kenyon
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