It's been 6 years since Gordon Lightfoot has been in Vancouver and as the newspaper said advertising his tickets: "It's been far too long. But the drought is over. Canadian folk legend and award-winning singer-songwriter Gordon
Lightfoot returns to Vancouver". Despite the stormy weather the Orpheum looked packed from where we sat. At precisely 8 pm Gordon walked across the stage wearing a long sleeved gray shirt, bluejeans and tan cowboy boots, starting the concert off with 14 Karat Gold. I wasn't able to write the songs down as he sung them but this is what I can remember (not in order, sorry): Early Morning Rain, Never Too Close, Same Old Obsession, Boathouse, Watchman, Don Quixote, Uncle Toad, Painter Passing Through, Cotton Jenny, a bit of Carefree Highway, a bit of Drifters, Make Way for the Lady, Red Velvet (Ian Tyson's), Blackberry Wine, Big Blue (I thought he might do that one here), If You Could Read My Mind, Baby Step Back, Canadian Railway Trilogy, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, I'll Prove My Love, Sea of Tranquility, Sundown, Rainy Day People, Waiting For You, In My Fashion and Beautiful. During the intermission he changed into a black t-shirt and black jeans and white sneakers and he seemed more relaxed.
If I could have changed anything about the concert, I wish people in the audience wouldn't have called out songs while he was talking. He is rather soft-spoken and I had a hard time hearing him when he did speak. But other than that the concert was great!! I hope we won't have to wait so long before he comes back again. After tonight in Victoria - look out Canada he's heading east!!
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