Gordon Lightfoot Forums - View Single Post

Debra · 08-02-2005, 12:49 AM

Thank you all for the warm welcome.
Rez, I'm very much looking forward to meeting him in Sparks, since Cat Tails and Brink have contacted me personally for getting together. I think it would be a blast.

As someone said, it's all in your own opinion, what is good to you isn't necessarily, what is good to others. When I was kid, I used to be crazy for the Beatles. I've come to appreciate all kinds of music. What I meant by GL being able to sing just about any song, I meant it...not necessarily in THAT particular genre...but in HIS style, and I think it would still sound wonderful...but as I said, that's my opinion.

I found a whole bunch of songs by him that my sister had, and there is not a single one that I would push the skip button, maybe REPLAY, but not skip. I adore ALL of his songs. I rate EW with not a 5, by any means...more like 9-3/4, if there is such a score. :D Silly, I know.

Rez, if I remember right, that first album I had did in fact have "rubbin" on it, but the latest recording I have definitely says "treatin", and the first line says something different, but I couldn't make out the words after "the kind of gig I I can really dig is..." I was trying to find those words on one of the lyric lists, but I couldn't make it out still.

Clogging is great! I used to be able to when I was younger and more agile...I love watching and listening to cloggers. My grandfather used to try to do a jig everytime he heard those kind of songs...he's the one who taught my uncle to play all those instruments, and the hammered dulcimer was handed from HIS mother, so it's been in the family a long, long time. Like I said, I was raised on all kinds of music and ways...hillbilly, bluegrass, country, rock, folk...that's where I put GL: folk with a sprinkling of country and a dash of rock...good food for the ear, right?
With that said, I still do think he fits in with the other 70's groups, because the 70's included a whole load of folk singers along with the rock, pop, country and so on.

I think he has a good rendition of Auctioneer...and the first person I ever heard sing that is another Canadian country singer, Hank Snow. After hearing him sing that, I wonder if he ever tried to do "I've been everywhere," anyone know?
Well, I've taken up quite a space here...
will hopefully meet more of you in Sparks.

[ August 02, 2005, 01:10: Message edited by: Debra ]

08-02-2005, 12:49 AM	#27
Debra Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: USA, Colorado Posts: 9	Thank you all for the warm welcome. Rez, I'm very much looking forward to meeting him in Sparks, since Cat Tails and Brink have contacted me personally for getting together. I think it would be a blast. As someone said, it's all in your own opinion, what is good to you isn't necessarily, what is good to others. When I was kid, I used to be crazy for the Beatles. I've come to appreciate all kinds of music. What I meant by GL being able to sing just about any song, I meant it...not necessarily in THAT particular genre...but in HIS style, and I think it would still sound wonderful...but as I said, that's my opinion. I found a whole bunch of songs by him that my sister had, and there is not a single one that I would push the skip button, maybe REPLAY, but not skip. I adore ALL of his songs. I rate EW with not a 5, by any means...more like 9-3/4, if there is such a score. :D Silly, I know. Rez, if I remember right, that first album I had did in fact have "rubbin" on it, but the latest recording I have definitely says "treatin", and the first line says something different, but I couldn't make out the words after "the kind of gig I I can really dig is..." I was trying to find those words on one of the lyric lists, but I couldn't make it out still. Clogging is great! I used to be able to when I was younger and more agile...I love watching and listening to cloggers. My grandfather used to try to do a jig everytime he heard those kind of songs...he's the one who taught my uncle to play all those instruments, and the hammered dulcimer was handed from HIS mother, so it's been in the family a long, long time. Like I said, I was raised on all kinds of music and ways...hillbilly, bluegrass, country, rock, folk...that's where I put GL: folk with a sprinkling of country and a dash of rock...good food for the ear, right? With that said, I still do think he fits in with the other 70's groups, because the 70's included a whole load of folk singers along with the rock, pop, country and so on. I think he has a good rendition of Auctioneer...and the first person I ever heard sing that is another Canadian country singer, Hank Snow. After hearing him sing that, I wonder if he ever tried to do "I've been everywhere," anyone know? Well, I've taken up quite a space here... will hopefully meet more of you in Sparks. [ August 02, 2005, 01:10: Message edited by: Debra ] __________________ Deb