Once, I asked one of my older students where she had grown up. She laughed and replied, “I grew up in California in the late 60’s and thought I was Joni Mitchell.” “ I know what you mean,” I smiled as I retorted, “I went to college in the Northwest and believed I was Gordon Lightfoot.”
In the early 70s, I used to thumb the highways of Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and points everywhere from there. I would wait on the on-ramps and sing any of 40 of his tunes I had memorized. One of my favorites was off Old Dan's Records, "Highway Songs", - 'Bottles, beads & cigarettes, lovers that I ain't had yet, pickin' with a friend till dawn, singing all those highway songs.' and 'I would travel all my life, if lonliness were not the price...' One of many great tunes.
David Hays
Boulder, CO
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