I'm a newbie to this site and forum, but hardly a newbie to life or folk music. Virtually every day I listen to a Lightfoot disc as I drive, and my 16-year-old choir-singing daughter has taken a liking to Gord. She asked me a question the other day that I can't answer with 100% certainty. In listening to "Ghosts of Cape Horn," she asks, "Who's doing the whistling?" Good question. And, a further question of mine, emanating from my somewhat diminished hearing: Is that an acoustic guitar that the whistling parallels? Regardless of whether or not it's acoustic, who's playing it? And who's whistling? Or is that an attempt to portray a sailor's hornpipe with another instrument? Sounds like acoustic and whistling to me. Best wishes. Jim in Texas
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