My 7 year old son recently became fascinated with Great Lakes ship wrecks,
most notably the Edmund Fitzgerald. So I played Lightfoot's ballad of the
Fitz for him. He has since taken up the guitar so he can play that song. He
is getting quite good. Kinda neat that someone so young is interested in
Gordon Lightfoot.
Brien

On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 7:43 AM, J Stewart <fonman4277@comcast.net> wrote:

> As part of my Father's Day weekend, the wife and I went to Gordon Lightfoot
> last
> night at Wolftrap in Vienna, Virginia. Took the Westy, got there early and
> had
> dinner and a bottle of wine in the camper-during a thunderstorm-which made
> me
> thankful I didn't get lawn seats! He opened with "Cotton Jenny" and then
> did
> "Carefree Highway". I've seen Gordon Lightfoot at least 5 times and this is
> the
> first time he as ever done "Carefree Highway". Always wondered what he has
> against that song? Opening song I was shocked, his voice is going, sounded
> very
> weak, then got a bit stronger as the concert went on, but seemed to come
> and go.
> When we got home, I looked him up on the Internet, and I did not realize he
> is
> 70 years old! I thought has was around 60. Anyway, well worth the $40.00
> per
> ticket price, even if his voice was a bit weak.       Jeff
>

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