Thank you, John. O.K., I just ordered them both on Amazon.com. I'll be waiting on tenterhooks for them to arrive! Just in case I wasn't clear before, I, of course, knew Gord's music since 1972, but, followed a different course of music after the mid-70's. So, I'm catching up. IYCRMM was the first song I heard of his. It was played at my brother's high school graduation in 1972 in a small auditorium. I remember it as if it were last week. Some of the kids had made a sort of psychedelic poster with their class motto on it, "IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND" and while the graduating class filed in, his song was played. I remember, when first hearing the beautiful guitar strains and Gord's gorgeous melodious voice, thinking that I would never be the same again. And I never was. The room seemed to be filled with a sort of golden glow. My mind was enraptured with Gordon's song. Everyone in the audience was silent and caught in their own thoughts as we all listened. It was as if we were all remembering lost loves -- and I pined for one (I was 13) as Gord's music filled my soul. I became a poet and a writer shortly after that. Though I was not and am not a writer by trade (I have been a legal secretary -- talk about using right and left brain), I often am struck dumb with amazement at how prolificly beautiful (how pathetically insufficient to describe Gordon's music) his music and writing are. I am brought to peacefulness by listening to him. I am at one with the world. If we had a world-wide P.A. system and played Gord's music, there would be no war. People would be filled with love, with loving thoughts, and with kindness. I can't wait for April 29 when I'm going to see him, live, and for the first time, in Las Vegas!! Blessings upon Gordon Lightfoot and us all.
Sheryl
[This message has been edited by Sheryl Klein (edited November 21, 2004).]
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