[bookshare-discuss] Re: A Multimedia Event for Gordon Lightfoot Fans
- From: "EVAN REESE" <mentat3@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:11:04 -0400
Hi Kim, I liked both his earlier and later stuff; although, like any other
artist that has put out as much stuff as he has, I don't like every album
equally.
Susan Polis Schutz didn't say why she selected what went into the book, but she
clearly seemed to like Cold On the Shoulder, the album after Sundown, since
there are excerpts from four songs from that one, more than from any other
album. Interestingly, she didn't put anything in from Sundown, which I think is
one of his best. One of those occasions where great popularity coincided with
great creativity in my view.
One of the things I admire about Lightfoot is that, like any great artist, he
didn't let himself be constrained by a specific musical genre.
Evan
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From: Kim Friedman
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Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 1:16 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: A Multimedia Event for Gordon Lightfoot Fans
Hi, Evan, I like Lightfoot's early stuff and have sung some of the songs I
like best. Can't say I care much for his later stuff beginning with "Sundown".
I did see the book in the collection. Being a folksinger, I know there is a
dearth of song books of traditional folk songs as well as for those who like
the lyrics of a particular singer/songwriter (such as Lightfoot). Regards, Kim
Friedman.
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From: EVAN REESE [mailto:mentat3@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 9:23 AM
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] A Multimedia Event for Gordon Lightfoot Fans
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.
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/190360?return
Path=L3NlYXJjaD9rZXl3b3JkPSZxdW90O2dvb2Qgc3BhY2VzJnF1b3Q7Jg%3D%3D#mainContent
Evan
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