listening to Lightfoot on the vinyl cafe

[bjb]

Did anyone else catch this? Mention made of Gord attending Hugh's, sitting at the back and singing along very quietly...apologies if this is a duplicate post

[charlene]

don't know when he was there - he's on tour now...

probably when the Tribute shows are on in January...??? He does go to quite a few other shows there..Pete Seeger, Ian Tyson come to mind.. Any more details??

[bjb]

I was only partly listening until I heard Lightfoot's name

Vinyl Café was recording in Toronto a couple of weeks ago at the cbcmusic.ca festival. They had a tent set up and people stopping by were being interviewed and requesting a favorite song. A guy whose name I didn't catch said that Gordon Lightfoot was a huge favorite, and he even had a brief encounter when Gordon drove his father home one night after they met at a pub somewhere. Had to be a number of years ago as the guy telling the story was 18 at the time. Another recollection (don't know when) was the Hugh's night I mentioned, but the cool thing was that it was a tribute concert and Gordon was very quietly singing along to his own songs!

I heard this Vinyl Café show will be aired again Tuesday night. FYI, Edmund Fitzgerald was requested, then jokingly the trilogy, but they settled on If You Could Read My Mind.

[bjb]

Sorry, should have made it clear that it was a Lightfoot SONG I was listening to!

[charlene]

I've seen him mouthing the words as his songs have been sung onstage at the Hugh's shows.. altho this past January when he got up from his table and came and sat beside me to listen to Jory he closed his eyes and just listened... lol