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I own Songbook and all of Gord's albums except for A Painter Passing Through. I bought my first Lightfoot! about 2006. I've just ordered A Painter Passing Through to enjoy over Christmas. So, that's it! No more new Lightfoot.

Gord if you are reading, and I know you are not, right some new tunes oe unleash more rarities.

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Hopefully Santa will be good to you - have YOU been good?
;)
It would be nice to get some new tunes from The Man.
I'll ask Santa and share your wish with him too..it can't hurt!

p.s. - you're going to love APPT ...

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I remember APPT coming through the post 12 years ago, I was over the moon! It sounded so upbeat! I'e only heard 3 Lightfoot albums upon their release as I didn't become a fan until 1989, and it didn't disappoint!!! I'm envious of anyone who still has albums to discover!

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It's cute that so many of us can expect a gift of Gordon's music under the XMas tree :biggrin:
This XMas...I'm expecting the CRT book and I didn't include anything else on my 'wish list'.

My first GL album that wasn't part of the family music collection was Endless Wire (on cassette) which I played out and have yet to replace. I found the LP at a thrift store over the summer but it wasn't in good condition (but I did pick up Salute [have on CD] and Dream Street Rose there).

CD's I like to get for XMas, but not LP's since I like to hunt around for them on my own.

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I pretty much already got my christmas(my folk have been EXTREMELY generous this year).Might receive a few small gifts on Christmas day.I am hoping for a new unused copy of "Sit Down Younger Stranger/If You Could Read My Mind".Will be very happy if I get it,and even if I don't-it will still be on my "i wants" list(you know what I mean,gang.Items that are small,but you can probably buy them for yourself at some point in the future.However,you wouldn't mind if someone gave them to you as gifts).
patybear

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My collection is fairly complete. I don't own a copy of Salute and my vinyl copy of Sunday Concert, bought in the bargain bin of the Finest Record Store in Greeley, Colorado in about 1976 is probably not worth digitizing so I need to replace that eventually. I do have the tribute album, Beautiful (It took a while for the Cowboy Junkies take on The Way I Feel to grow on me, but it has), but I don't have the Tony Rice covers album, and I do like Tony Rice a lot. I would like to add more live recordings.

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Believe it or not, once your collection is complete, you'll have kind of an empty feeling because now there are no more albums/songs to look forward to that you haven't heard.

Sometimes I like to go on kind of a hiatus from listening to certain albums for a few months, that way it's almost like falling in love with them again.

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I think the next step will have to be cross the Atlantic and see a gig for real.

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Hearing the Cowboy Junkies cover of "The Way I Feel" turned me into an instant Junkies fan. Seen them for the first time a couple months ago.

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Well done young stranger! :)

I assume you mean CD's specifically? Or is there more?

I completed my Gord "vinyl hunt" in Dec. 2002 (except Gords Gold 2) which I finally found last year about this time.

I have "most" of his albums on CD but I think I still need "Summer Side Of Life",
"Don Quixote","Shadows" & "Salute" in that format.

Not holding my breath about finding "cassettes".

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Yes, I will have to give them more of a listen. Heard them interviewed on NPR a few weeks ago and they do sound like somebody I need to hear more from.