Leonard and Gordon Lightfoot

Post by **jarkko** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 8:18 pm

Two Canadian music giants met last Saturday at the CSHF dinner:
Gordon Lightfoot and Leonard Cohen.

Photo by Anjani. Thanks for sharing it with us!!!

lizzytysh · Post by **lizzytysh** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 8:56 pm

. . . A great photo, in any case ~ and they both look good . . . I like 'earthy' and Gordon has a bit of the Willie Nelson on-the-road look about him, so he's still fine with me.

Okay. I'll stop now

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~ Lizzy]

Bob Parkins · Post by **Bob Parkins** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 11:49 pm

Lightfoot nearly died three years ago, after an aneuryism burst in his stomach during or just before a concert. He was in hospital for several months and was widely thought to be about to cash in. Instead, he's back and singing and now has announced a country-wide tour for later this year.

Kush · Post by **Kush** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 11:55 pm

And I'm listening a lot recently to a 3rd Canadian legend : soundtrack to "32 short films about Glenn Gould". O Canada...

"Each time I hear a Gordon Lightfoot song I wish it would go on and on forever" - Bob Dylan (he inducted GL to Canadian Music Hall of Fame)

st theresa · Post by **st theresa** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 12:13 am

I just noticed a news item that Lightfoot is about to go on tour. I was already a Lightfoot fan when I heard Songs from a Room--a tape --love these two giants of Canadian music, thanks for the pic --had another leonard cohen dream last night and I just have to say lizzy that leonard looked better in my dream than in the pic. heheheh

Tchocolatl · Post by **Tchocolatl** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 5:28 am

I saw this film when he was launched, it seems too me like it was last week (more or less) I checked and it was in '93. Time flies... woooo. It is almost frigtning. "His version of Bach's "Goldberg Variations" is definitive, and was included as one of the samples of humanity's best on both Voyager spacecraft".

Gordon Ligthfoot? I always liked his name. Here. Now it remains me of this other documentary made in '92 : "Ceux qui ont le pas léger meurent sans laisser de traces". It will not be his fate.

Tri-me · Post by **Tri-me** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 6:31 am

Great photo, two Canadian legends. We sang Gordon Lightfoot songs in grade 6. My favourite....my girlfriends and I would act out when we sang this song

Pussywillows cat-tails soft winds and roses
Rainpools in the woodland water to my knees
Shivering quivering the warm breath of spring
Pussywillows cat-tails soft winds and roses
Catbirds and cornfields daydreams together
Riding on the roadside the dust gets in your eyes
Reveling, disheveling the summer nights can bring
Pussywillows cat-tails soft winds and roses

Slanted rays and colored days stark blue horizons
Naked limbs and wheat bins hazy afternoons
Voicing rejoicing the wine cups do bring
Pussywillows cat-tails soft winds and roses

Harsh nights and candlelights wood fires a-blazin’
Soft lips and fingertips resting in my soul
Treasuring remembering the promise of spring
Pussywillows cat-tails soft winds and roses

lizzytysh · Post by **lizzytysh** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 3:16 pm

Such a strong and clear photo ~ like a character study... and filled with it. You can see the depth of their shared, musical history... and they both share a tender, gentle presence.

That song must have been so much fun to act out, Tri-me.

~ Lizzy

Kevin W.M.LastYearsMan · Wed Feb 22, 2006 5:12 pm

Actually, my older brother and I had just had a conversation about Gordon Lightfoot on the way to Memphis not too long ago. I put some of his stuff on (good traveling music that I knew my bro liked) and we talked about his music and songwriting for quite a while. We were wondering about what happened to him. I figured that he must have died because how could someone be that good of a songwriter and then just drop off of the face of the earth? That was what I was wondering. I'm glad that he is still alive and getting some respect. I had also wondered if he ever met Cohen. Both of them being Canadian and considered folkie songwriter types.

"Rows of light and a circle of steel
where you place your bets on a great big wheel...
A child is born to a welfare case
where the rats run around like they own the place" Etc.

Cheers for ol' Gord and Leonard as well. May they both write many more great songs.
Kevin

Kush · Post by **Kush** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 5:44 pm

As I recall, he recorded all of Prairie Wind,

I think thats the recent Neil Young album....

I saw this film when he was launched, it seems too me like it was last week (more or less) I checked and it was in '93. Time flies... woooo. It is almost frigtning. "His version of Bach's "Goldberg Variations" is definitive, and was included as one of the samples of humanity's best on both Voyager spacecraft".

I dont really listen that much to classical music but that soundtrack is very good indeed. Yeah....I saw the movie long time ago I should see it again now.

Gord's written so many great songs one that I remember at the moment is Don Quixote...

See the man who tips the needle
See the man who buys and sells
See the man who puts the collar
on the ones who dare not tell.

lizzytysh · Post by **lizzytysh** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 5:55 pm

Oh, dear... thank you, Kush.

With Google's help, I now understand my confusion on this... "aneuryism," "back and singing," and "not so long ago" took me past the correct singer to another gentle one from the same era, who had the same condition, and "Prairie Wind" stuck in my mind regarding it.

Young began making the album shortly after he was diagnosed with a brain aneuryism last spring; "It was important to say what needed to be said so that you ...

From what's been said here earlier, it seems Gordon must have come closer to death than Neil did... as the doctors told Neil he could possibly go on indefinitely without its presenting a problem.

st theresa · Post by **st theresa** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 5:15 am

One of GL's best songs wast The Canadian Railroad Trilogy , but there were so many--I'll be alright I'll be alright if I don't have to smile, if I don't have to see the morning sunlight for awhile

Tri-me · Post by **Tri-me** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 6:29 am

He has a web site, not as good as Leonard's.

http://www.lightfoot.ca/
His tour goes no further east than Montreal. His voice is still silky smooth.

Sherry · Post by **Sherry** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 4:25 pm

Hello, Tri-Me. We also learned Pussywillows Cattails when
I was in grade 6. Do you think we were at the same school?

I think the very first LP album I ever bought was a Gordon Lightfoot
album back around 1970. He was certainly my favorite singer/songwriter
back then. I still love his songs. It's really nice to see a picture of
both him and Leonard together.

Sherry

Patyou · Post by **Patyou** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 4:31 pm

The CSHF dinner : may someone explain what event is it ?
Thanks
Patyou