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Old 05-09-2014, 02:10 PM   #1
Dave, Melbourne,Australia
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Default If Gord had done a concept album ...

This question came to me after enjoying "Homo Erraticus", the new concept album by Ian Anderson, leader of the band Jethro Tull, who also recorded popular concept albums "Thick As A Brick", "A Passion Play" and "Thick As A Brick 2". (I just posted about "Homo Erraticus" in the Small Talk section.)

If Gordon Lightfoot had recorded a concept album during his career, what concept might it have been based on? (The history of Canada? An armchair tour throughout Canada? A biography about his ancestors, his own life and interests and what he wishes for his descendants? ... )
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Old 05-09-2014, 02:18 PM   #2
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nice Dave

crossing this land by rail, then back again via it's waterways
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Old 05-11-2014, 12:28 PM   #3
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If Gordon Lightfoot had recorded a concept album during his career, what concept might it have been based on? (The history of Canada? An armchair tour throughout Canada? A biography about his ancestors, his own life and interests and what he wishes for his descendants? ... )
I am surprised that nobody has yet mentioned Gord's one time expression of interest in doing a nautical concept album.
(of course you can always custom compile your own from all the sea flavoured songs in the repertoire)
There is also a suitable CD jewel case front insert available and in trying to find it I found a posting I made just last year about Gord's "WET " music at:
http://www.corfid.com/vbb/showpost.p...4&postcount=10
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Coming soon to your favorite local live music venue
"Gordon Lightfoot - An Evening Of Wet Music"
yes well I seem to remember Gord once saying that he would like to record an album of sea shanties and of course many of his songs do have a nautical, i.e.wet, theme including mentions of sundry islands.trout,mermaids,whales,rivers and their bends,canoes, boathice etc
In fact according to that talented Zoneranger fellow such an album has already been issued

that posting is part of a great thread about curmdgeonly Gordon singing wet songs with a splendidly different interview from 1975
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