CBC Radio 3 (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Last night I had the honour of presenting Toronto rapper D-Sisive with his ECHO Songwriting Prize at the unbelievably grand SOCAN Awards at the Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto. I don't think D-Sisive or I knew what we were getting ourselves into... Among the award winners and honourees in attendance at the black-tie event were, all in one room, Stompin' Tom Connors , Gordon Lightfoot , Rush , Tom Cochrane...
WFMU's Beware of the Blog (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Here are several radio spots promoting the 1962 observance of National Country Music Week. I must admit I was a bit surprised to see that they found room for Connie Francis and the Kingston Trio, performers not generally associated with...
Boulder is a Stoopid Place (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
ShadowAll about aging and lost love, this magnificent song has never sounded better, or more poignant. Here it is again, as the Twin Cities' own Pete Lee likes to say, "once more once." Tony Rice's version and lyrics.This is a Gordon Lightfoot song.Needless to say, h/t to Scott Johnson over at Powerline.
Power Line (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Twenty years after Tony Rice called on resophonic guitar virtuoso Jerry Douglas and friends to record Gordon Lightfoot's "Shadows" with him, bluegrass heartthrob Alison Krauss decided to record this magnificent song as well. She assembled her Union Station bandmates -- Dan Tyminski, Ron Block, Barry Bales and Douglas -- to back her on it. Rice must have had something to do with inspiring...
Pax Parabellum (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
I was just sitting here thinking about ways we could get our son to stay in contact with us, when I started thinking about the date and thinking November 17 is someone's birthday. And there it was on Poweline ---Gordon Lightfoot (he was born in 1938). "Song for a Winter's Night" is my favorite--yeah it's depressing, but I liked it for the sleigh bells in the original recording. Here's one...
Liquor Barn's Party Line Blog (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Btms^ for Tuesday, November 17. Drink 4cast 4 2day: Great Lakes’ Edmund Fitzgerald Beer, 2 toast 2 Canadian singer & songwriter Gordon Lightfoot born 2day in 1938. On this date in… 1800 – The U.S. Congress held its first sessions in Washington, D.C. 1869 - In Egypt, the Suez Canal linking the Mediterranean and Red Seas was inaugurated. 1894 – The ”Daily Racing Form”...
Power Line (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Today is Gordon LIghtfoot's birthday. The guy is a wonderful songwriter, an old-fashioned carouser who is also an incurable romantic, and a pensive kind of man's man. I first saw him perform live in 1970 at Dartmouth's Spaulding Auditorium in the Hopkins Center for the Arts just after he had jumped to Warner Brother from United Artists and released Sit Down, Young Stranger" (later renamed "If...
they must need bears (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Today's to-do list: today: feed starving, starving, STARVING cats play with neglected miserable lonely dog (and feed him, too, but he doesn't care about that) yoga ice ankle do dishes take out compost dentist lunch drink tea farm stand for Thanksgiving shopping coffee shop* (to work! take that, JOHN SCALZI! By GOD, I'm hitting a hundred pages today or tomorrow) climbing take out trash really, finish...
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
CUE GORDON LIGHTFOOT. Yes, the Edmund Fitzgerald sank on Nov. 10, 1975, but many other ships and boats battled harsh weather on the Great Lakes. The subject of that famous Lightfoot song sank in Lake Superior near Whitefish Bay during a storm; the 29-man crew perished. Others:
Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Laura Cantrell was born and raised in Nashville, but came to New York City for college and never left. She's not only a singer and songwriter but a musicologist as well, serving as the proprietress as The Radio Thrift Shop on WFMU. Rolling Stone has called Laura "A modern woman with an old-timey heart, with a voice pitched somewhere between the bluesy realism of Lucinda Williams and the vintage...
The LLama Butchers (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Because yesterday was the anniversary of the sinking of Edmund Fitzgerald: Gordon Lightfoot - The Edmund Fitzgerald - Dedication VideoUploaded by kevinmd85008. - Watch more music videos, in HD!...
Blacknell.net (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Finally found a radio station between Bryce Canyon and Zion National Park today, and its playlist reminded me that some places are just stuck in time. Whenever I go back to Atlanta, it’s the usual early 90s hip hop/R&B. The Twin Cities always seem to play the same late 80s hair rock. [...]
Greg Laden's Blog (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
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Divers and Sundry (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Today is the anniversary of the loss of the Edmund Fitzgerald in 1975. There is a site "dedicated to informing others". The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum has a section of their site devoted to this boat: The legend of the Edmund Fitzgerald remains the most mysterious and controversial of all shipwreck tales heard around the Great Lakes. Her story is surpassed in books, film and media only...
The Upward Call (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
David has reminded me that on this date in 1975 The Edmund Fitzgerald met with its doom. I don't know why, but I thought it was November 8, 1975... I'm hanging my head in shame. I guess the sunshine of today is a departure from when the November skies turn gloomy.This song was something we studied when I was in 6th grade. My music teacher was a huge Gordon Lightfoot fan, and his song provided
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