I too have been listening to more Lightfoot in the past weeks, but in my case I think it is more coincidence than design. I recently spent a week driving around Lancashire, England with a friend and fellow Lightfoot fan. We listened to a tape of various Lightfoot songs throughout our travels. Since my Lightfoot collection is incomplete, there were songs on this tape that I had never heard and other songs that I had not heard often enough to really form an attachment. I was familiar with the titles after seeing them discussed here and in the other sites that I visit, but what a revelation to me to find new favorites among these songs and to actually feel and understand what some of you have been saying about them all along! In that same time period, I received the ‘final four’ as a gift and I’ve spent my time since returning home listening to them. Of the four, Salute is the only album I had heard and that was due to another Lightfoot friend sending me the LP that he didn’t have the means to play anymore. But even then, I only listened to it a couple of times a long time ago. Any of the songs on the other three that I was familiar with came by hearing them in concert and that really isn’t a good setting for narrowing in on unfamiliar songs. It takes me focused and repeated listening to be fully immersed in a song and to feel the depth of it. Well, as I said, the whole experience has been quite a revelation for me
