Rare (In America) GL album find!!

[Borderstone]

Friday (payday) on the 18th I went to a new (oldies/used) record store called Revolver Records in uptown Phoenix.

Along with some more of the LPs I lost in '06 I found a $2.00 but in greeat shape copy of instrumentalist Neil Chotem's "Gordon Lightfoot Instrumental Songbook"!

I'm guessing this album is 40 years old because the songs he and his group cover are all UA.

Softly
The Gypsy
The Way I Feel
Bitter Green
Long River
Pussywillows/Cat*Tails
Crossroads

and more!!

Ironically,Mr. Chotem passed away this past February and i do have 1 other LP by him,which I actually bought for it's cover.

What an awesomne find this is!

[Jesse Joe]

You got a great deal on that, "Gordon Lightfoot Instrumental Songbook" Borderstone ! Really glad for you.

[Borderstone]

Thanks Jess. Surprised the heck out of me too.

Thought I'd found a rare studio album by Gordon for a moment. Then I'm like,"Oh hey,this is cool too".

Wouldn't pass that up for anything.....even a Mariah Carey album! LOL!

[Jesse Joe]

congrats on the great find!!!

[johnfowles]

Originally Posted by Borderstone

Thanks Jess. Surprised the heck out of me too.

Thought I'd found a rare studio album by Gordon for a moment. Then I'm like,"Oh hey,this is cool too".

Wouldn't pass that up for anything.....even a Mariah Carey album! LOL!

OK this is not that rare a vinyl album. it very often is on offer on ebay. Indeed right now although there are no private sellers there is at "coolforever"'s Ebay store a copy being offerred admittedly at rather more than Mr Sober Rodent's bargain find:-
http://cgi.ebay.com/NEIL-CHOTEM-LP-S...2em118Q2el1247

this contains a nice image of the attractive album sleeve:-

there are in fact several albums of instrumental versions of Gord's songs but IMHO they all have one glaring fault that makes them in the end pretty boring: they do not have any lyrics. Another such is by the "Mariposa Reeds":-
http://cgi.ebay.com/CANADIANA-MARIPO...2em118Q2el1247


Plus one that I bought back in 1988 in Ottawa:-
http://cgi.ebay.com/JOHN-ARPIN-Love-...2em118Q2el1247

One instrumental CD that I do have is Tapestries

somewhere I have a larger image than that but I know it is on an external hard drive that I am unable to access right now
because my desktop insists that that drive containing nearly 40 GB worth of valuable (to me anyway) archived files requires formatting which I do not for one moment accept
However whilst trying to find it on line I did find on amazon.com:-
Tapestries The Music of Gordon Lightfoot
Perry Novak & Bob Volkman with Ernest Lyons (Author)
which turned out to be not a book but the same audio cd on offer by
used_cd-universe for an optimistic $50.00

I bought my copy on Yonge Street on November 1999 at Sam The Record Man's emporiam

[Borderstone]

Very unusual John, on my cover,the brown paint is over to the left more,not in the center. The left side has a pinkish hue to it as well.
(and some dumb bunny's initials!)