Viking Hall - Bristol, Tennessee
SET LIST:
(1) Sweet Guinevere
(2) Cotton Jenny
(3) 14 Karat Gold
(4) Never Too Close
(5) In My Fashion
(6) A Painter Passing Through
(7) Christian Island
(8) Shadows
(9) Beautiful (followed by band introductions)
(10) Carefree Highway
(11) Hang Dog Hotel Room
(12) Ribbon of Darkness
(13) Sundown ("This is our 65th show this year!")
(14) The Watchman's Gone
(15) Alberta Bound
INTERMISSION
(1) The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
(2) Ringneck Loon
(3) Don Quixote
(4) Home from the Forest
(5) Let It Ride
(6) If Children Had Wings ("...involves my first ex-old lady!")
(7) Restless
(8) If You Could Read My Mind (followed by a lengthy standing ovation)
(9) Baby Step Back
At this point, someone in the audience shouted a request for Canadian Railroad Trilogy. Gord seemed a bit perplexed, and even turned to the band to playfully ask what they should do. Finally he said "I'm gonna take a flyer on it!" He pulled it off. And it was thrilling... the highlight of a highlight-filled evening.
(10) Canadian Railroad Trilogy
ENCORE:
Blackberry Wine
The audience was respectful, attentive, engaged, enthusiastic, and highly appreciative. The same could be said of Gord and the band. The rapport between audience and musicians was electric.
More than with any of the other Lightfoot concerts we've attended, this one had an unusually intimate feeling to it, as if Gord had invited us all into his living room. It was a most memorable evening.
Gene
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