a wonderful GL fan, talented writer, musician, arranger, producer, performer and needless to say, cool dad - some neat stuff that you may not have stumbled across at his site:
here's a link to his interview on PA radio where he chats (the chat starts a quite few minutes onward) with 2 fine gents about all sorts of neat stuff as well as talks of his motivation to start the GL site back in early 90's:
Acoustic Radio Hour on WCCS 1160 from Indiana, PA - Anthony Frazier hosts and joined by another swell fellow
http://acoustichour.com/mediaclips/s...ynefrancis.mp3
note: Tom May quite nicely performs a few of Wayne's compositions
Wayne Francis Profile:
http://www.lightfoot.ca/wprofile.htm
check out audio sample of Market Square from his wonderful new Southpaw CD
http://www.lightfoot.ca/marketsq.mp3
I enjoyed reading of how each album is a "signpost" (can't we all related to this?
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"...it's been a rewarding experience following Gordon Lightfoot's musical journey all these years. I started listening to him as a 12 year old in 1967. Until I heard him, it was all Beatles, all the time. Since then, I've awaited each new release from Lightfoot with undiminished anticipation. Looking back, each album is like a signpost, stirring vivid memories of the circumstances surrounding the point I was at in my life when the album was released. Some cases in point - taking up guitar (Back Here On Earth); my first summer job (Sit Down Young Stranger); leaving home for the first time to attend university (Sundown); that idyllic, yet bittersweet summer of 1976 (Summertime Dream); a year spent travelling (Endless Wire); birth of my first child (Waiting For You). I can remember as a high school student, saving my money to buy Don Quixote and when the day finally came to make the purchase, I awoke to a freak April snowstorm and can clearly remember walking up the middle of the street to the record store because the sidewalks weren't yet shovelled. Or while changing trains in Montreal in 1975, I wandered into a store to pass the time, only to find the brand new Cold On The Shoulder staring back from the shelves! These are just examples, but every album is etched firmly in my conscience, from the day I first layed my eyes and hands on it in the store, through those first critical listening sessions - always privately, to soak up every new nuance of word and music without distraction, the time and place in my life forever colouring how I hear those particular songs. His music opened the door for me to explore artists like Dylan - and many more too numerous to mention. But to my mind Lightfoot is the epitome of what a singer/songwriter should aspire to be. Watching how he has conducted his career all these years has been an inspiration for me in many aspects of life, even extending far beyond music..."
and check out Courtney (one of his talented vocalist/performer daughter's, really starting to come into her own over the past 3 years)
http://www.lightfoot.ca/xprofile.htm
http://www.lightfoot.ca/crystalc.mp3
GL Tribute CDs:"
great recordings by many of musicians/fans found at corfid and the newsgroup including Wayne versions of:
let it ride
knotty pine
fading away
weaver of the night (original GL tribute composition, superb)
Tom May also performs on these CDs
very grateful for the work he does and really dig his monthly commentaries, enjoy
jj
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