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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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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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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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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Those of you who read my LJ know that I post a song of the day every day (well, almost every day), and that January's theme is "Songs That Make Me Happy". After I posted today's song, I heard this one while I was getting ready for work, and it just set the morning up perfectly. It's now a song that makes me happy, too.Oh, and another thing that makes today great. I went to McDonald's for bre...
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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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