Gordon Lightfoot Forums - View Single Post

fezo · 07-09-2000, 02:05 PM

I'll look, but I'm old enough to remember the Detroit riots ( I was 16 at the time). I remember a bit later listening on the skip to W-KBW in Buffalo (I was in New Jersey, but AM radio would go magical at night and you could get these far away stations) and hearing "Black Day in July" and being utterly amazed and just nailed to the wall. It is an incredible telling of the event - right up there with the Fitzgerald in its own way. I only wish Gord had done more of such songs. I understand why he didn't - don't want to get pidgein-holed as a "protest singer," but taht wasn't so much a protest song as music as journalism.

07-09-2000, 02:05 PM	#5
fezo Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Manahawkin, NJ, 08050 Posts: 806	I'll look, but I'm old enough to remember the Detroit riots ( I was 16 at the time). I remember a bit later listening on the skip to W-KBW in Buffalo (I was in New Jersey, but AM radio would go magical at night and you could get these far away stations) and hearing "Black Day in July" and being utterly amazed and just nailed to the wall. It is an incredible telling of the event - right up there with the Fitzgerald in its own way. I only wish Gord had done more of such songs. I understand why he didn't - don't want to get pidgein-holed as a "protest singer," but taht wasn't so much a protest song as music as journalism.