[New 12 String Mike]

I've said it here before, quoting Sunday Concert's liner notes, "Early Morning Lightfoot, scraping my head clear..."

That says a lot there. I, like so many of you, can tie a Gord song to an event in my life, when what he wrote and sang, got me through it, made it more enjoyable, helped me help someone else, etc., by bringing me back into focus and realizing that it will get better and then worse, then better again.

Other songwriters click with me with a song or two, but nowhere as often, or as consistently as Gord has.

Then, of course, there's the guitar playing. I suppose if I'd worked as many of others writers' stuff as I have Gord's songs, I might have caught some musical patterns in their work as well as his. But while there are similar things musically, there's also lots of variety that keeps it interesting to play.

I'm not Canadian. I'm not from around the lakes. I'm from Virginia. Which just shows that his music does reach out.

And I enjoy stopping by here and just catching up.