If Gord had done a concept album ...

[Dave, Melbourne,Australia]

This question came to me after enjoying "Homo Erraticus", the new concept album by Ian Anderson, leader of the band Jethro Tull, who also recorded popular concept albums "Thick As A Brick", "A Passion Play" and "Thick As A Brick 2". (I just posted about "Homo Erraticus" in the Small Talk section.)

If Gordon Lightfoot had recorded a concept album during his career, what concept might it have been based on? (The history of Canada? An armchair tour throughout Canada? A biography about his ancestors, his own life and interests and what he wishes for his descendants? ... )

[jj]

nice Dave

crossing this land by rail, then back again via it's waterways

[johnfowles]

If Gordon Lightfoot had recorded a concept album during his career, what concept might it have been based on? (The history of Canada? An armchair tour throughout Canada? A biography about his ancestors, his own life and interests and what he wishes for his descendants? ... )

I am surprised that nobody has yet mentioned Gord's one time expression of interest in doing a nautical concept album.
(of course you can always custom compile your own from all the sea flavoured songs in the repertoire)
There is also a suitable CD jewel case front insert available and in trying to find it I found a posting I made just last year about Gord's "WET " music at:
http://www.corfid.com/vbb/showpost.php?p=182424&postcount=10
Coming soon to your favorite local live music venue
"Gordon Lightfoot - An Evening Of Wet Music"
yes well I seem to remember Gord once saying that he would like to record an album of sea shanties and of course many of his songs do have a nautical, i.e.wet, theme including mentions of sundry islands.trout,mermaids,whales,rivers and their bends,canoes, boathice etc
In fact according to that talented Zoneranger fellow such an album has already been issued
http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/9473/q9qn.jpg
that posting is part of a great thread about curmdgeonly Gordon singing wet songs with a splendidly different interview from 1975