How cool to see Buddy's article here. He has been a strong friend of our music series and has written some great articles/interviews on many of our performers. He may have understated Gord's touring levels prior to his illness, but he still captured the essense of Gord's music and talent.
Borderstone, his comparison to pablum was to emphasize that Gord's music is deeper and even greater than his commercial hits that in past years had him compared with performers such as Fogelberg, Loggins, Denver and Chapin. I mean no disrespect to Fogelberg, Loggins, Denver or Chapin as I enjoy all of their music, but I can see where Buddy was going with comparing Gord's body of work more to the likes of brilliant songwriters such as John Prine and Guy Clark, who aren't well known to radio listeners or folks far outside of their cult following.
[ April 23, 2005, 15:26: Message edited by: Janice ]
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