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Thread #40817   Message #586499
Posted By: catspaw49
06-Nov-01 - 12:31 AM
Thread Name: ADD: Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald (Lightfoot)
Subject: RE: Have you not heard of Gordon Lightfoot?
Ya know Guys, while I mught even tend to agree with you about a "Lightfoot Song," it's way too common for a lot of songwriters to fall into that and I agree that Fitz was a departure and for me, very haunting, very foreboding...you can hear the storm.

As far as the it's a "So and So Song"..........Lightfoot and everyone else is way behind and cannot hold a candle to James Taylor. You can sing the lyrics to "Fire and Rain" to ANY of JT's songs. Arlo once was talking about a song he wrote which sounded like a JT song and he realized that he wrote it whilr the two of them were living together in either London or Paris...don't remember which.

Spaw