{"id":11894,"date":"2024-02-18T06:43:58","date_gmt":"2024-02-18T06:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=11894"},"modified":"2024-02-19T07:24:41","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T07:24:41","slug":"music-gordon-lightfoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=11894","title":{"rendered":"MUSiC: Gordon Lightfoot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_7443-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11891\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_7443-1.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_7443-1-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_7443-1-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_7443-1-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">1970 LP, <em>Sit Down, Young Stranger<\/em>.*<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>* A rare original pressing, of the album as initially intended, <em>sans <\/em>front-cover text. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having Canadian ancestry, and relatives that still live there, it\u2019s perhaps not too surprising that I should, at some point, become aware of Gordon Lightfoot. What <em>is<\/em> surprising is how long this has taken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Sit Down, Young Stranger<\/em> (1970) became a big success for the already veteran performer, on account of containing his greatest hit to date. The album title has subsequently been changed to <em>If you Could Read My Mind<\/em>, on account of the massive popularity of this track.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"590\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_7441-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11892\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_7441-1.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_7441-1-300x295.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The hit single. I do so love green!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Up until now, I was only dimly aware of \u2018Gord\u2019\u2019. And vague un-tested assumptions had me bracketing him as dull mainstream country-tinged MOR. Will a closer listen change this view, I wonder?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps motivated by his fairly recent passing, in 2023, aged 84, and the comments on this by Canadian family (a cousin saying Lightfoot was \u2018the soundtrack to my life\u2019, for example), I\u2019ve decided I ought to check him out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"316\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_7445-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11893\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_7445-1.jpg 316w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_7445-1-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_7445-1-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_7445-1-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 316px) 100vw, 316px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">More groovy green!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And to that end I ordered a CD of his 1970 album, which is, as already mentioned, now retitled<em> If You Could Read My Mind<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* A rare original pressing, of the album as initially intended, sans front-cover text. Having Canadian ancestry, and relatives that still live there, it\u2019s perhaps not too surprising that I should, at some point, become aware of Gordon Lightfoot. What is surprising is how long this has taken. Sit Down, Young Stranger (1970) became a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=11894\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MUSiC: Gordon Lightfoot&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-35Q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11894"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11894"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11937,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11894\/revisions\/11937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}