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Old 10-03-2013, 02:32 PM   #1
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This may have been posted before..lol http://www.rgj.com/viewart/20131003/...en-sundown-yet

Written by
Barbara Curtin
Gannett News Service

If You Go
Who: Gordon Lightfoot
When: 8 p.m. Oct. 3-4
Where: John Ascuaga’s Nugget, Celebrity Showroom
Cost: $60
Details:
www.janugget.com

Reached by phone before his current tour started, Gordon Lightfoot says he is “between two worlds, ‘here’ and ‘there.’ “

“Here” is an office in Toronto, where the Canadian singer has lived for 45 years and keeps a schedule so regular that panhandlers line up to greet him.

“There” is the “50 Years on the Carefree Highway” tour, which will take him to more than two dozen other cities across the U.S. and Canada.

Along with the song that forms the title of his tour, he’ll sing other favorites that helped define folk music in the 1960s and 1970s: “Early Morning Rain,” “If You Could Read My Mind,” “Sundown” and “(That’s What You Get) for Lovin Me.”

He may be 74, but this tour typically has him performing at a new city each night. He and his three-man backup band travel by plane. The stage crew goes by bus, and an 18-wheeler hauls the sound and light system.

Lightfoot started singing as a teen, he said, when he listened to Tony Bennett on the radio and thought, “I can do this, too.” He wrote his first song in 12th grade.

His early role models included folk singers Pete Seeger and Bob Gibson. But Lightfoot forged his own reputation with long story-songs including “Canadian Railroad Trilogy” and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.”

The latter was inspired by a news story about the loss of 29 lives when a ship sank on Lake Superior. It takes seven minutes to perform and is an essential part of each show he does.

He has continued performing through the 1980s to the present. Ill health has occasionally sidelined him — most notably for 19 months in 2002-04 for complications of a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm.

But public respect for his work has brought armloads of honors, including five Grammy nominations and induction into the Songwriters’ Hall of Fame.

Perhaps conscious of his blessings, he makes a point of giving money to the homeless people who stake out the path between his gym and office. Some get $5 or $10 a day; one, a musician, gets $20.

“I feel sorry for this guy, he’s really a neat person,” Lightfoot said.

In an effort to stay in shape for touring, he has gotten back to his fitness routine: stretches, weights and fast walking, five or six times a week.

“I have discovered the secret of working out,” he said mischievously. “Don’t lift anything heavy.”

He lives with his cat but remains on good terms with his ex-wife and their young-adult children. His 19-year-old “baby daughter” is an aspiring songwriter, and Lightfoot coaches her.

His girlfriend, a film crew worker, lives Los Angeles.

Asked about his lack of a website — google “Gordon Lightfoot” and you’ll get a fan site — he responded, “I don’t even have a cellphone. One of these days I will get to the 21st century, but I guess I’m not ready yet.”

However, he does pay attention to today’s singers, including pop heartthrob Justin Bieber. The two shared billing in late November for the halftime show at the Canadian Football League’s Grey Cup. The crowd cheered Lightfoot and booed Bieber.

Does he think Bieber’s music will be playing 50 years from now? No, he doesn’t go that far.

“I believe Bob Dylan might last,” he said. “Elvis Presley. The Beatles.”

He doesn’t add himself to that list. But fans in two nations buying tickets for “50 Years on the Carefree Highway” might disagree.
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Old 10-03-2013, 03:57 PM   #2
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Gord modest

i think Dylan songs will live on 50 years down the road... Beatles and Elvis recordings will live on

Lightfoot songs and records will both live on....
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Old 10-04-2013, 03:55 AM   #3
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I wonder which of the 4-man backup band misses out on the plane ride and has to travel by land.

And as Gord now hates "For Loving Me" and hasn't performed it for years, I'll be surprised if it resurfaces on this tour.
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Old 10-04-2013, 09:25 AM   #4
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the OFFICIAL Lightfoot Facebook fan site - https://www.facebook.com/GordonLightfootOfficial
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Old 10-04-2013, 07:01 PM   #5
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Rick pic:

We're in for our 5th engagement in 12 years here at the Nugget in Reno / Sparks. This is a view of the entrance to the Celebrity Showroom. Come in and enjoy the show!

and here's a view from the stage. We have a long history of appearances in the Reno / Sparks / Tahoe area. Also, we recorded a full concert DVD at the Pioneer Theater in Reno back in 2000.
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Old 10-04-2013, 10:09 PM   #6
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the OFFICIAL Lightfoot Facebook fan site - https://www.facebook.com/GordonLightfootOfficial
cool - now i see what you mean by Official - i just noticed that there was one called Gordon Lightfoot - cant the creator guy change it to Fan of Lightfoot or something?

and maybe Gord's people should obtain a global domain: gordonmlightfoot.com
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