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The following veteran artists have posted new touring dates (number of new shows in parenthesis):Gordon Lightfoot (4)Nick Lowe (5)Gary Numan (15)Joan Armatrading (26)Paul Carrack (21)
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Gordon Lightfoot
Touring: Gordon Lightfoot, Nick Lowe, Gary Numan, Joan Armatrading, Paul Carrack
Touring: Gordon Lightfoot, Pat Benatar, Blondie, Randy Travis
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Gordon Lightfoot04/08 - 04/09/09 - Nanaimo, BC - The Port Theatre04/10 - 04/11/09 - Vancouver, BC - Centre In Vancouver For Performing Arts04/13/09 - Calgary, AB - Jack Singer Concert Hall04/14/09 - Edmonton, AB - Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium04/16/09 - Winnipeg, MB - MTS Centre04/17/09 - Thunder Bay, ON - Thunder Bay Community Auditorium04/18/09 - Sault Ste. Marie, ON - Essar Centre05/06...
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Gordon Lightfoot, "Carefree Highway"
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I'm very aware that this is far from a creative choice when it comes to Gordon Lightfoot's music, but as much as I'd love to be hipper to things than I am, I'm not. My exposure to Lightfoot came as a kid, with my father's copy of Sundown. I know the big, popular tunes of his, and that's it.So I'm as guilty as anyone else when I say that Gordon Lightfoot deserves a lot more attention than he g...
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Epic railroad song
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For the longest time, I kept hearing about this song, but I kept forgetting to look for it when I came across Gordon Lightfoot LPs. Finally, I found it in a collection and played it instead of "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" or "Early Morning Rain." It richly deserves it's reputation as an epic song, as it shifts gears like a train climbing varying terrain. Here is the "Canadian Railroad T...
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Lightfoot banned in the U.S.A.
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Black day in JulyMotor city madness has touched the countrysideSo begins Lightfoot's Black Day In July, a song Lightfoot wrote about the 1967 race riots in Detroit. But after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. a week earlier - on April 4, 1968 - many top-40 radio stations in the U.S. refuse to play the song. They fear the lyrics will ignite violence. Lightfoot tells CBC Radio, he's no...
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"Fellows, it's been good to know ya... "
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Album:Gord's Gold Vol. 2
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The EDMUND FITZGERALD foundered on Lake Superior during a severe storm November 10, 1975 at approximately 7:10 pm about 17 miles north-northwest of Whitefish Point, MI at position 47°0'N by 85°7'W in Canadian waters. The FITZGERALD was running downbound loaded with 26,116 tons of taconite ore pellets from Superior, WI for Detroit, MI. During the height of the storm in 70 knot winds, 25 foot wav.
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Touring: Gordon Lightfoot, Pat Benatar, Blondie, Randy Travis
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Gordon Lightfoot04/08 - 04/09/09 - Nanaimo, BC - The Port Theatre04/10 - 04/11/09 - Vancouver, BC - Centre In Vancouver For Performing Arts04/13/09 - Calgary, AB - Jack Singer Concert Hall04/14/09 - Edmonton, AB - Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium04/16/09 - Winnipeg, MB - MTS Centre04/17/09 - Thunder Bay, ON - Thunder Bay Community Auditorium04/18/09 - Sault Ste. Marie, ON - Essar Centre05/06...
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(Black Day in) July
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A song about the 12th Street Riot, "banned" from US radio (click here to hear Gord's take on the situation).
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