... another good songwriter leaves us, RIP If you could read my mind, love What a tale my thoughts could tell Just like an old time movie 'Bout a ghost from a wishing well In a castle dark or a fortress strong With chains upon my feet You know that ghost is me And I will never be set free As long as I am a ghost, you can't see
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Loved the tone of his voice....always found it very relaxing, very easy listening, but with real depth to the lyrics. One of the artists that reminds me of my Dad....always happy memories. R.I.P. Gordon Lightfoot.
My post on here features this very song and an accompanying report on its background and consequence. I have a tenuous connection to it, my old man went to sea all his life and was often involved in bulk shipments across the North Atlantic, of these cargoes it was the stowing of Iron and Steel in particular he felt uneasy about. eventually he became a Canadian citizen and worked exclusively for a many years on the St Lawrence seaway. To cut a long story short, until this thread I had never really listened to Gordon Lightfoot, or realised the significance of his name, and much prefer the un-airbrushed version of him featured here, having previously filed him rather unfairly in the Rodger Whittaker, section. Apologies all round would seem to be in order.
I read your post Clocky and it spurred me to post just the YouTube link for the lazy buggers like me I spent many a happy evening doing things I shouldn't be doing, listening to Gordon Lightfoot among others. It makes me feel my age when the people I listened to in my youth are dropping like flies in my dotage. Although they were roughly the same age, Lightfoot was a mentor to Bob Dylan throughout Dylan's career, I suppose that must be how I got into him.
Thanks mate , I tried to isolate the song and got a shock when the whole article went in , but before I could edit it Rooch bless him , had put up a like, panic ensued so I posted the whole lot again, omitting my original intro . Its a good article in its own write showing a side of the man which as I said previous, had totally escaped me. Thanks for your insights into Bob Dylan too, its rewarding to discover new angles on music, its always evolving but I think we are both lucky to be able to look back on those heady decades, which for me started mid 50's with skiffle and blossomed in the heady 60's and 70's .
