[bookshare-discuss] A Multimedia Event for Gordon Lightfoot Fans
- From: "EVAN REESE" <mentat3@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2010 12:22:38 -0400
Hello Folks,
A few days ago, I submitted a little art book called I Wish You Good Spaces:
Poetic Selections from the Songs of Gordon Lightfoot. It contains excerpts of
lyrics from many of his songs starting with his earliest album, Lightfoot,
released in 1965, up through the 1976 Summertime Dream album. The book also
contains several airbrush illustrations accompanying the lyrics. Lissi
proofread the book, and described the illustrations. She checked it in
yesterday evening and Carrie approved it late last night.
Little did I know how fortuitous the timing would be! I happen to go to Amazon
last night because I was trying to think of a name of one of his earliest
albums and was having a memory block. Going through the list of titles, I
discovered that a whole bunch of them are being reissued today. It appears that
just about everything he recorded for Warner Brothers Reprise from his 1970 Sit
Down Young Stranger, (aka If You Could Read My Mind), album on up to his 1998
album, A Painter Passing Through, thirteen in all, is coming out again today. I
didn't see it on Amazon, but from another source, it appears that they have
been remastered as well.
The timing is especially coincidental because I got this little book last
year, either for Christmas or for my birthday, so I may have had it for a year.
I admit that I did forget about it for a while, but finally getting around to
scanning it and getting it into the collection on the day of all these new CD
reissues is something really exciting for any fans out there, as I am.
So for any of you fellow Gordon Lightfoot admirers out there, I wish you good
spaces, good reading, and good listening.
Here is Lissi's book synopsis and a link to the book:
A collection of poetic lyrics excerpted from Gordon Lightfoot's songs. He was a
popular folk singer from the mid-sixties through the seventies. Even without
his music, his observations on lasting love, passing love, friendship, nature,
beauty and peace. made for relaxing reading and contemplation then as they
still do today.
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Evan
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