Gordon Lightfoot: any steeler in road band?

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 20 Jan 2000 7:27 am

Lightfoot's comin' to town. Any steel player in his group to go hear?

Mike Weirauch · Post by **Mike Weirauch** » 20 Jan 2000 8:19 am

Gee, the Edmund Fitzgerald wouldn't sink without one would it?

Where have you been hiding?

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 20 Jan 2000 8:28 am

Under a rock.

Mike Dennis · Post by **Mike Dennis** » 20 Jan 2000 8:34 am

Have no idea.... but I've been into Lightfoot's "Song Book" 4 CD compilation retrospect... This is a very good release from 1999, covering Gordons career from 1962 up to present.
Two of the disks have quite a bit of steel guitar in the songs.

A definite buy for any Lightfoot fan.

Chip Fossa · Post by **Chip Fossa** » 20 Jan 2000 3:21 pm

Also just got GL's 4-CD.....simply great,
especially with previously unreleased songs.
I've already bought 5 balconey seats in the newly refurbished CALVIN THEATRE in Northampton, MA.
Gordon is coming there March 10, and I can hardly wait. Saw him last about 30 years ago
at Tanglewood.
I purchased the tickets about 2 weeks ago and
out of 1300 seats, at that time, there were
only 460 left.
I sure hope he'll have a steeler. He had one 30 years ago, and I think it was Pee Wee
Charles.
Yeah.........he'll have that steel.
A lot of his BIG radio hits had steel on the
those recordings.
Yeah.........he's gotta have that steel.

Chips Ahoy

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Chip
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Mike Dennis · Post by **Mike Dennis** » 20 Jan 2000 7:41 pm

I heard Gordon got together with Ronnie Hawkins (and the hawks "The Band" fame) for some big bash up in Canada recently...[This message was edited by Mike Dennis on 20 January 2000 at 08:05 PM.]

Don Walters · Post by **Don Walters** » 21 Jan 2000 3:55 pm

Jim, GL does a Canadian tour quite regularly and I doubt I've missed one since 1980, (at least 12 shows). He's only had PeeWee Charles with him once, at least out West. He may use a steeler when he's closer to home, I don't know. Maybe some of the Ontario guys would know that.

Mike, the Ronnie Hawkins, etc thing was on CBC TV on the weekend as a small version of Willie's Farm Aid. The idea was to raise awareness of the severe problems Canadian farmers are facing, especially in the West.

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George McLellan · Post by **George McLellan** » 23 Jan 2000 9:23 am

I missed GL the last time he was here in Duluth. My son went and said it was the best concert he'd ever been to. (I was piping in another part of the DEEC complex at the same time as his concert)

Is that the same "Suzie Q" Ronnie Hawkins? It's hard to picture him (if it is him) doing country after his R&R career.

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Marty Pollard · Post by **Marty Pollard** » 23 Jan 2000 12:53 pm

4 CD compilation retrospect...covering Gordons career...

4 CDs to cover two songs?!? Well I'll be!

Mike Dennis · Post by **Mike Dennis** » 23 Jan 2000 7:42 pm

Lightfoot CD song sample:

small sample out of 82 total songs...

Steel Rail Blues
Canadian Railroad Trilogy
Crossroads
The Mountains and Maryann
Did She Mention My Name
Sundown
CarefreeHighway
Rainy Day People
The Wreck Of The Edmond Fitzgerald
Sea Of Tranquility
Canary Yellow Canoe
If You Could Read My Mind
Poor Little Allison ................. my fav.
Summer Side Of Life
Cotton Jenny
10 Degrees & Getting Colder
Alberta Bound

etc...etc...etc.... tons more there... a great release and deffinate buy.

One of my best buys in years....

Box set in a nice case with booklet...

[This message was edited by Mike Dennis on 23 January 2000 at 07:47 PM.]

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 23 Jan 2000 8:22 pm

Now, now, Marty. Wasn't it Curly Chalker himself who found enough good Lightfoot tunes to put out an entire steel guitar album of them?

Marty Pollard · Post by **Marty Pollard** » 23 Jan 2000 8:40 pm

Well Jim, I was just kinda kiddin'. The only two I could name is Sundown (which I love) and that godawful boat song (which I don't). I don't purchase many steel albums (they're not in regular music stores, and I hardly ever go to shows). A guitar picker I know made me sit down and listen to some of Lightfoot's material and I still won't speak to him. For songwriting give me JJ Cale anyday, or even John Prine.

Bobby Lee · Post by **Bobby Lee** » 23 Jan 2000 10:32 pm

I don't purchase many steel albums (they're not in regular music stores, and I hardly ever go to shows).

Click here Marty.

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Marty Pollard · Post by **Marty Pollard** » 24 Jan 2000 7:06 am

Hi b0b, I'm really not trying to be a cheapskate but I'm between regular gigs right now. My doggone 5 kids keep insisting on the continuance of the luxurious lifestyle they've become accustomed to, you know, like food and shoes. I'm hoping one of these forumites who can afford 3, 5, 7!!!, steels with all the trimmings will extend a little charity and order a couple of albums and send them this way.

If money were no object, then I would order everything there. I probably also wouldn't hold back on my opinion so much for fear of offending someone.

In fact, I'd probly order them Lightfoot CDs too as the wife is running short of coasters for the coffee table...[This message was edited by Marty Pollard on 24 January 2000 at 07:08 AM.]

Bobby Lee · Post by **Bobby Lee** » 24 Jan 2000 1:38 pm

I thought it was just a matter of convenience, Marty. Sorry to hear about your personal troubles.

Gordon Lightfoot makes good music. AOL makes good coasters.

Mike Dennis · Post by **Mike Dennis** » 26 Jan 2000 11:25 am

Hey, Hey Gordy....

Chip Fossa · Post by **Chip Fossa** » 26 Jan 2000 3:22 pm

Yes, I couldn't believe it either. "Peewee"
also dropped me a nice note and mentioned the years he had played with, as he would put it, 'Gord'. And also mentioned that Gord
would not replace him when he left the road.
So. And so. Maybe this concert will be just
GL solo with guitar in hand.....nothing wrong
with this....that's the way it started....
but I will dearly miss not only "Peewee", but that pedal steel as well.

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Chip
Williams U-12 8X5

Mike Dennis · Post by **Mike Dennis** » 26 Jan 2000 8:18 pm

oops... sorry guys...

earlier in the quickness of reading... I thought Joe posted that gordy did have a steel guitarist... I missed the NOT part...

must of hit my blind spot

Chip Fossa · Post by **Chip Fossa** » 28 Jan 2000 9:57 am

On disc 3, track 8 is a song called "FINE AS FINE CAN BE". There is a little steel in this cut; maybe could have been more; BUT.....this is Lightfoot, as country, as country can get. Have never heard this song until I recently got his 4CD composite release.
One terrific song.

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Chip
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