on 5/19/2023, 1:47 am, in reply to "Re: Bruce: Find us the rest of this .... please ...."
And for the record (pun intended, hahaha), I'd also like to thank you too....
For starting up this legendary KINGSTON TRIO PLACE website (since 1997) which BOB SHANE himself, enjoyed immensely....
sometimes even posting his own comments and observations.
Now here we are in 2023, living in a world of uncertainty, complicated by galloping inflation, etc....
yet you manage to keep KINGSTON TRIO PLACE alive and well and kicking for fans of THE KINGSTON TRIO and Folk Music;
and for other kinds of music, as well; including interesting topics. And let's not forget: SASS
What you do, speaks volumes, Ken ~> and it doesn't go un-noticed.
Okaaaay, so once I'm here, how 'bout another inspiration for a GORDON LIGHTFOOT song?
<> "IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND"
In the words of GORDON LIGHTFOOT:
It's a song about the failure of marriage. No matter how much it stung, you had to keep on writing tunes.
You had a band and a recording contract, so you pressed on. Nobody dreamed that it would become a hit; and a big one, at that.
The album (originally entitled: "Sit Down Young Stranger" before this became the title track) was out seven or eight months before the song emerged;
And I was glad it did. It's about peace and acceptance. It stood the test of time. My gosh, fifty years and counting?
Funny thing is, I never get tired of doing it.
- Gordon Lightfoot
Brucester
<> "If You Could Read My Mind" / Gordon Lightfoot concert at the Pioneer Theater, in Reno, Nevada (2000)
Gordon wrote this song about his deteriorating marriage to his first wife, Brita Ingegerd Olaisson.
They were married in 1963 and had two children together (Ingrid & Fred) before their divorce in 1973:
"I don't know where we went wrong but the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back."
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Thanks, Brucester, a very interesting back story on Gord! Folk On! Previous Message
Hi Max:
Okaaaay, I've got lots of interviews on tape featuring GORDON LIGHTFOOT in addition to JONI MITCHELL and IAN TYSON and SYLVIA TYSON and LEONARD COHEN, etc....
including a pretty good interview with our beloved BOB SHANE.
Trouble is, due to our recent move a few years ago, most of them are still in storage.
I've been meaning to unpack these boxes, but life kinda gets in the way, and I never seem to get around to it.
But one of these days I will definitely pull out those tapes and share those interviews with Kingston Crossroaders.
Meanwhile, not to let you down about what inspires GORDON LIGHTFOOT to write songs...how 'bout the inspiration for:
"SUNDOWN"
In 1970, GORDON LIGHTFOOT was inspired to write a song entitled "SUNDOWN". This had to do with his stormy relationship with a girl named Cathy Smith.
Remember Cathy Smith? / She's the gal who was sent to prison for delivering a lethal dose of heroin to John Belushi. [charge: Involuntary Manslaughter]
Anyhow, the night GORDON LIGHTFOOT wrote "SUNDOWN" he was sitting at home stressing out over Cathy Smith.
Apparently, Cathy went out to a bar with her friends, and Gordon was worried she would hook up with some other guy.
Hard to imagine Cathy Smith would leave Gordon for some "common stranger" but who can tell about girls, eh? (hahaha)
(there is no accounting for taste) Meanwhile....
GORDON LIGHTFOOT stared out the window as the sun was going down. (ie: "Sundown")
Gordon picked up his guitar, began plucking the strings one by one, and improvised words about how Cathy Smith was affecting him:
"I can see her lying back in her satin dress in a room where you do what you don't confess.
Sundown, you better take care if I find you creeping 'round my back stairs."
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