[johnfowles]

[quote=charlene;189046]review (can be translated) http://www.gagarin-magazine.it/2016/05/musica/i-giochi-dombre-di-gordon-lightfoot/[/quote]

Keen to see what an Iti thought of the Manchester concert I asked that nice Mr Google to translate the article and Yer Tis including a clutch of photos
Note that these photos are not stored on an potentially unreliable site like Photobucket but were simply copied and pasted directly from the article's web page using my latest technique following my exciting discovery that that is possible here .I have attempted to explain and demonstrate this phenomenon in my ongoing test forum thread Q,V. which I may well start over in a fresh thread shortly but it certainly works as you can see below
The article in Italian was written by a journalist who is evidently a Lighthead
http://www.gagarin-magazine.it/2016/05/musica/i-giochi-dombre-di-gordon-lightfoot/
The shadowy games of Gordon Lightfoot
.An exceptional performance at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester : the last time the Canadian singer-songwriter performed in Europe was in 1981 and the expectation is broken with a concert of nearly two hours , where six of his many classics are just throbbing . The review
　
The man is old but not old - how could it be Gordon Lightfoot , thinking about the story that brought along , to seriously one of the greatest songwriters of the last fifty years ? Story is true Tower of Song , as would his old friend and fellow Canadian Leonard Cohen . Indeed , to see him so in good physical shape , although transmit a certain feeling of frailty , after so many years devoted to the bottle and after heavy health trouble that has passed , it just pleasure. When talking about people who (still ) do not break , despite everything and despite the nearly eighty years - just a little ' like autumn leaves on the trees , say the beloved Giuseppe Ungaretti
　




The voice is experienced , also struggling to carburetor for the first quarter of an hour , is prim and ethereal , fragile but when meshing is not worn - in essence , as has always been to Gordon Lightfoot in the course of the seasons , which will also , as he wanted to make it known to the world his former manager Albert Grossman , that " the second most played American singer-songwriter " ( the first , of course , is his first friend and admirer of Bob Dylan ) , but still , even now that it is well advanced in years , as the no one else sings his songs he sings - in spite of heavy gauge exegetes who call themselves Elvis Presley , Judy Collins , Bob Dylan , Johnny Cash , Jerry Lee Lewis , Nico , Fairport Convention , Jerry Reed , Billy Lee Riley , among dozens



The figure appears on stage at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester is thin , light hair leaning on the shoulders , the usual Martin six twelve strings alternated in the neck that have made history and a quintet that mostly , in its various elements, with him for many decades - all in the service of a class that has no rival : clean , balanced , that if you speak in terms of print characters would " Bodoni " . A bit ' as its magnificent songs , never a note too many or a verse or a word too , but simple innate perfection, expressive qualities that have few and that many would make the war to be able to have at least a modicum





He, as always impassive, returns with a currency that is gold made of thirty pieces that are pure, intangible ecstasy of the largest North American songwriting:
Sweet Guinevere
Did She Mention My Name ?
Waiting For You
Never Too Closef
Don Quixote
Clouds of Loneliness
A Painter Passing Through
Spanish Moss
Shadows
Beautiful
- just the Shadows-Beautiful
sequence seemed that most of all he left breathless degree of intensity
Tthe Watchman's Gone
The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald
Carefree Highway
Pony Man
Now And Then
Ribbon Of Darkness
Sundown
14 Karat Gold
I'd Rather Press On
Minstrel Of The Dawn
Let It Ride
If You Could Read My Mind
Restless
Baby Step Back
Early Morning Rain
Rainy Day People
Cold on the Shoulder
- numbers he modestly said to be "the product of the folk revival," but in truth, like very few other (Bob Dylan? Kris Kristofferson? Randy Newman? Leonard Cohen? Guy Clark? Merle Haggard? Laura Nyro? Lou Reed?), are the result of a pen with power simply to be indelible, without distinction whether it's time or memory.
CICO CASARTELLI