My favorite song, after listening to GL and playing his songs on my old Yamaha guitar for 27 years, is Seven Islands Suite. The chord progression is very dramatic. Lyrically it is exciting too-I can see the fiery autumn colors and smell the harbor smells. I am landlocked here in Wyoming and it was GL who first opened my imagination to the Sea. All of his sea ballads are marvelous-the Edmund Fitz, the Yarmouth Castle, Christian Island...and I can't take a sip of good Scotch without thinking of GL somehow.
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