Subj : Damn ...
To   : WARD DOSSCHE
From : Rob Mccart
Date : Thu May 04 2023 00:36:00

WD>If You Could Read My Mind
  >Sundown
  >Carefree Highway
  >The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
  >Summertime dream
  >Early morning rain
  >For loving me

Yes, something special has been lost. A friend of my brothers lived a few
doors down from Lightfoot and he used to drop in now and then to play
tunes with them. He was a very down to earth guy they said.

Listening to some of his songs today I was reminded of how many of his
pieces were in my repertoire. Rarely did I do more than a couple of songs
by any one artist but I probably learned 8 or 10 of his over the years.
Two of my most requested favourites at friend's parties were Edmund Fitz.
and If You Could Read My Mind. I refer to parties with others who played
guitar or fiddle. I didn't too often get paid to play although I was once
offered a space on a mixed record for a song I wrote but that project
sort of went under before it got to the production phase. Being a musician
was never a big dream of mine though so it didn't break my heard. I played
an electric guitar and wrote songs in a teenage rock group for a few years
and later bought a 12 string and a couple of 6 string acoustic guitars
and got more into folk type music so Lightfoot balads fit in well.

But the world has lost a unique person and many of us will miss him..

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