[johnfowles]

After traipsing over New england at the weekend it was great to see our third concert at the fairly near to or home Count Basie Theatre
Talking of Bill Basie if you like a nice bit of jazz try the feature on Oscar Peterson and the Count at:-
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/oscar/
In fact while getting to the still being renovated theater was quick getting home afterwards was not due to an extremely poorly signposted detour to miss roadworks on the vital road linking the town to the Garden State Parkway (after a half hour trying to guess where the detour was sending us we found ourselves back at the orignal road block)!!
On the way down we had played and enjoyed the fine set of twelve Lightfoot covers by Tom Granata (a.k.a "wheels") and Since 9 of those are of songs on the 5 United Artists albums I surmise that Tom like me is fonder of them than many more famiiar and later gems
Having previously met Tom once and having his picture on his CD as a reminder I soon spotted him and his very special,lovely, other half Loren.But thre was time then for only a few words before the concert began. Afterwards Tom passed me a copy of his CD to give to Gord which I did. I didn't tell Tom then that although the chances of Gord playing it are slim since Tom's phone number is on the CD artwork there is of course an outside chance that if Gord likes the arrangements which he should he just might give Tom a call!
here is the setlist:-
1 Did She Mention My Name
2.Carefree Highway
3.Sea Of Tranquility
4 14 Karat Gold
5 Never Too Close
6 A Painter Passing Through
7 Let It Ride
8 Spanish Moss/Shadows
9 Beautiful
10 The Watchman's Gone
11 Ribbon Of Darkness/Sundowm
12 The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald
INTERMISSION
1. Sweet Guinevere
2. Cotton Jenny
3.Restless
4. Home From The Forest
5.Waiting For You
6.Make Way For The Lady
7.Fine As Fine Can Be
8.If You Could Read My Mind
9.Don Quixote
10.Baby Step Back
11.Canadian Railroad Trilogy
ENCORES
12.Song For A Winter's Night
13.In My Fashion