Dear Rob,
Glad you like Ganet Rogers and you are right his ballads are his best work.He only did one electric album , it was the year he turned 40( that should explain everything:})
He travels in a white Volvo with a million miles on it..all alone.He sells out in America and Canada and as it is with many artists, he is at his best when seen live.
Years ago he was part of his brothers band, the late Stan Rogers(incredible man to check out as well)and they all toured Canada on a bus.Gord was with them and Joni Mitchell.They are all old friends and associates but Stan perished in a fire on a plane as he was coming back from Kerrville Texas and Garnet has never flown since.
I love David Wilcox by the way.You have great taste.
I spent a year working with Garnet's wife trying to get him on Canadian telelvison.After many phone calles to ill informed talent co-ordinators, I was told he was too intellectual for the average Canadian audience.Which of course could only mean that we all are a bunch of morons.:}To heck with them all,Listen and learn from a master at work.
Where I go, you go with me
Tho the miles keep us apart
Your kiss is on my lips
Your face before me
And your gentle hand
Always on my heart.
We are brief as summer lightening
We are swift as swollows flight
We are sparks that spiral upwards
In the darkness, in the night
We are frost upon this window
We wont pass this way again
In the end dear
Only love remains.
He wrote this for his wife while traveeling on the road.He tours 10 months of the year crisscrossing the America.Go see him if you can.
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