Being the rabid Gordon Lightfoot that I am this question comes my way frequently and I never know how to respond. Most times I try and deflect it by saying something stupid like "in which category?" In the late sixties at a concert in the little town of Alliston, Ontario Gord appeared there with his two band members at the time, Red Shea and John Stockfish. For the very first time I heard him perform "Bitter Green" and he make the reference that "This is a GOOD song." When it came out on the "Back Here On Earth" albumn I ended up taking a week off work just so I could have the time to absorb that recording at my leisure. Bitter Green turned out to be a song that grew on me in a way like no other Lightfoot song ever did. It is unique in the fact that Gord fingerpicks it on the six string guitar in the "drop D" tuning. I know of no others in that particular tuning on the six string guitar. His bigger songs like "Early Morning Rain" and "Canadian Railroad Trilogy" are done in the "drop D" tuning but they are strummed and played on the twelve string. Bitter Green is my favoutite song TODAY! RJ.
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