In May of 1998 Gord's mother Jessica passed away, and I was in attendance at Massey Hall, when he stopped after a few songs and became a little emotional when he mentioned his mother had been in attendance at Massey Hall for the last 30 years except for this year and he went on to say she was gravelly ill and that " The House You Live in" was his mother's favourite song.
That song was brought out of retirement and put back in rotation in the following couple of years as he also played that song here in Brantford in 1999.
Sadly Jessica passed away a couple of weeks after the May Massey Hall gig in May 1998.
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