No slight to Gordon Lightfoot was intended. His performance of the song was letter perfect and I remember it from when the LP was first released.
I just thought Phil Ochs performance at Amchitka was better. It has a vulnerability that breathes emotion into the song.
The song itself is almost too wordy, with images that feel almost literary.
It's Ochs sensitivity in performance that gives it a new pov.
Cheers on your site. I love Lightfoot and will try to keep up with the good posts.
As I said in another story, my cousin Jim who had a 12 string and I spent many days and nights practicing Gordon Lightfoot songs back in the 1966-1969 period.
Through friends I got to meet Lightfoot briefly in Montreal once and kept in touch with others who were only one degree of separation from Lightfoot.
Six degrees of separation from Gordon Lightfoot
Merry Christmas from an old folkie - Stephen Pate