Gordon Lightfoot: Cold on the Shoulder
This is one of my favorite albums from back in the day, but many of the songs have not been available through youtube until very recently. There is apparently a group of Lightfoot enthusiasts trying to change that, though some of them are still embedding disabled. I’ve included links to those though.
Rainy Day People
Cold on the Shoulder
Rainbow Trout
All the Lovely Ladies
Still unavailable:
The Soul Is the Rock
Bells of the Evening
A Tree Too Weak to Stand
Fine as Fine Can Be
Slide on Over
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…in order for the whole thing to be complete:
Cherokee Bend
I was struck by how old Gordon looks in some of the pieces above.
Robyn
But I am Canadian and all so it is sort of required.
I know he has been hospitalized with fairly serious illnesses in the past few years. When he first started out years ago he survived playing the very rough bar scenes up North in front of drunken hostile mine workers and such which is probably why a) he is still so loved he really was a musician of the people and b) he turned out to have such longevity.
But it’s one of those ‘essential’ Lightfoots… 🙂
I got dragged to all kinds of fiddle fests and folkie hippie fests as a young child. My mother was just a few years older than that generation (born in 1940) but I got the exposure so I have always had a soft spot for the hippies even though I was more of the punk era. But WTF they have punk music for car commercials to so all those punk and post punk people accusing the hippies of being sell outs need to look at themselves in the mirror.
Bottom line if you’re a cultural phenomenon you will get absorbed, witness the gentrification of hip hop.
b/c the script looks quirky to me…
please watch this video
if i just think about the ‘idea’ of this art, it doesnt particularly appeal to me…but seeing them…theyre strangely captivating, and now i wish i had done something like it….tho i have no idea where i’d keep them…and geez, i was HUUUUGE when i was pregnant…