I've shared fond memories of Gordon Lightfoot before but was recently asked by someone in media so am sharing again for new followers here.
Gordon was a good friend and a great inspiration. I saw him many times myself but the real impact was when Burton Cummings and I first went to his show in 1966. He played nearly 2 hrs of original songs and kept us spellbound with the stories, lyrics and poetry woven into his music. It really made us think, "Maybe we can do that too as musicians." We wrote a song called Lightfoot about it. He went beyond acoustic and his drummer was Barry Keane, whose dad George Keane, the head of Quality Records, signed The Guess who and gave us our name. Barry played congas on the BTO hits "Looking out for Number 1" and "Blue Collar".
Here he is with "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"
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