I've been a fan for a very long time. First Lightfoot song I ever heard (The Old Man Returns from the Forest)was sung by a classmate in our High School cafeteria in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Without ever having met my reclusive old relative who'd spent most of his life in the bush, Lightfoot had eternalised the old fellow. I knew at that instant that Lightfoot had his finger on the pulse on the elusive nature of "Canadian Identity". Time and again in the past 30 years his songs have confirmed this. Whenever one of my four children has asked the inevitable question: "What is the Canadian Identity?" (as they invariably have done when taking Grade 11 history), I've handed them my collection of Lightfoot LPs and locked them in a room with the old turntable!
Saw Gord perform live at the Pular in Sault Michigan circa 1969. Have recently introduced him to my daughter and cannot answer a simple question. HELP!
Why is the "Trilogy" - a trilogy?
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