Gordon Lightfoot - Don Quixote

[Eliz4848]

I love hearing him, over the years, how he is now, and how he was. He's the same marvelous man. i've enjoyed his live concerts over the years and just want to be there live with him! He's still the same man!! we all get older!!! he's a genius.

[Dracopol]

This song would go good with LEGEND OF ZELDA: OCARINA OF TIME. There's even a windmill in it! What are the odds!

[Jayoung1000]

Don Quixote is my favorite Gordon Lightfoot album. It's packed with haunting melodies and enchanting lyrics.

[jamesgnostic]

im glad iv still have him on vinal 33.

[HugeGene]

Very nice solo version of this amazing song. The entire album Don Quixote is a masterpiece, done at a time when both his singing and compositional skills were at a peak; he never sounded better than that period 70 to about 76. Great post, Thanks.

[Syzygy60]

I highly recommend "Gord's Gold" vol's I and II

[BluGrassa]

NICE & I remember the Country Gentlemen version which is also amazing, especially the harmony vocals

[dowling1981]

@BluGrassa Trallagh upon thy hills?

[BluGrassa]

@dowling1981 what do you mean?

[dowling1981]

@BluGrassa I was questioning you on the nature of portention. Do you betray?

[SuperDianaMarie]

I think this is wonderful! Thank you for sharing! My father loved Gordon Lightfoot.

[ijustpostcomments]

I saw the lyrics to this at the heading of a story about a similar sort of character... I didn't know it was a song, and I wanted to continue on to the story, but I couldn't stop reading it.

Now I have the uncontrollable urge to read the book, and have finally found our old copy. After it has suitably lost its coating of dust, I shall attempt to read it.

[starvinfolkartist]

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[dondecker100]

I don't think this is live but on video through a TV or maybe it was projected on a screen at an outdoor concert...still good though!!

[Manzanita949]

I took the video myself. It is live in concert. Just a junky camera with bad white balance!

[neilo731979]

when is Australia on the tour cards Gordo????

[xr7390gt]

My dad loved Gord, I heard him as I grew up, and admired the guitar work of both he and Red. The guy is an amazing song writer. I've yet to hear something by him that I don't like (although some of the more popular ones have been played to death on the radio over the years). He's got the lyrical depth of a Bob Dylan with the added bonus that the melodies are always great and he had a great voice! Bob - not so much...

[minaroar]

Lightfoot is playing 2010 Maripossa folk festival in Canada, I'm so going!

[parttimepicker]

I've been a fan of GL since '71. The first album I ever heard him do was "Don Quixote". He is definitely the best singer-songwriter-entertainer ever. I finally got to see him in 2007. What an experience!

[jaketequilla1]

One hell of a great song writer as he is a person. One of my all time favorites ! I have a lot of respect for anyone who's been perfoming as long as he has and now at his age. I agree: He definetly has Heart! And to Red Shea, may you rest in peace !

[Linny0111]

I have been playing his music for almost as long as he has. This is one of my favorites. The guitar he is playing is an old Martin D-18. The darn thing must be as old as he is. Priceless.

[jurgenmanfred]

gordon will always be special in my heart

[robinanddel]

We saw him in '07 also...when he started in on this song, It was all I could do not to cry. To keep going after all he has been through is a blessing. His voice may not be what is was, but his heart is a big as the Canadian prairie.

[donquixote2u]

I agree with Calypso, a true minstrel of the dawn is he! ..

[Fredswampfox]

badnews-He is second only to John Prine.

[rayjr62]

Sorry. He isn't. Anyone who writes a song about staring down a bowl of Oatmeal isn't even in the same conversation as Gordon.

[VashtiInez]

I was just a little girl when Sundown became popular. I used to listen to it in the morning before school. Good memories.

[minaroar]

that's adorable, love Gordon

[Calypso48]

Genius. Poet. A true Minstrel indeed!

[badnewsBH]

Mr. Lightfoot is, in my opinion, the greatest singer-songwriter to ever walk the earth. This song is a favourite of mine, although it's tough to choose ones that are better than the others. Thanks for sharing this. :)

[BTORocks]

Gordon Lightfoot is one of the greatest songwriting talents of all time, he has albums full of songs as good or better than this one.

[luv4lightfoot]

He's pretending he's old.

[MrSimmies]

If Bob Dylan or Joni Mitchell wrote this song we'd never hear the end of their "genius" for composing such a song.

Lightfoot has albums of songs like these

and people don't even know who he is. He is IMHO the best songwriter...period.

[tecnolover2642]

@MrSimmies

Gordon is indeed a genius folk song writer but lets not forget John Denver! I put those two at the top of my list. There are other good ones. But no doubt Gordon should have has immensely more fame and recognition than he did. One of the best.

[BIGJOHNTON80]

@MrSimmies i agree mr.simmies!

[shmuckabein]

The man was in a coma for weeks and was hanging between life and death. Now at the age of 70 he's still performing and sharing his love of lyric and melody. God bless, ya, Gordie. - "he is wild but he is gentle, he is strong but he is meek"

[yamahonkawazuki]

normally most afte rthis would retire. BUT god blessed gorond. he does it for the fans. and im one of them. a recent convert about a decade now

[Manzanita949]

No he wasn't. He hasn't had anything to drink since the 80s. Definitely not drunk.. he always sings it this way.

[swiftjeff]

No. I just saw him in concert two weeks ago. Hes old, he went through rough times, and he is reaping the effects of his past. He doesn't do anything like that now.

[rayjr62]

No, he wasn't. Gordon quit drinking in the early 80s. He did have a serious drinking problem which almost de-railed his career back in the late 70s but he is long over that.

[chocolatyeggs]

in my opinion, this is pretty good quality considering its illegal! but i'd say its worth getting a recording of him! I have seen lightfoot live twice, I have been a fan for maybe 3 years (I am only 18) and his music is always so deep. I am currently perfecting this song myself to play it myself.

[swiftjeff]

Hey cool to hear I'm not the only young person who likes this music. 19. Loved it for years.

[seededsoul]

21...I mostly listen to hip-hop, and then rock, but I really love the song that starts with, "If you could read my mind, love..." I looked at the lyrics, they're so simple, but the feelings he expresses...like a painter, making great works of art from only red, blue, and yellow.

[gareof]

don't do that - don't put a musician (especially one like Gordo) on video without a good audio - it's, i don't know, it's just bad form

[Manzanita949]

I'd say it's not bad for a small digital point and shoot camera!

[gareof]

Sorry, but I think it IS OBVIOUSLY a small digital point & shoot camera! (bad) You should record the audio from the album over the video (simple editing) - then you at least have a picture (you were there - that's cool) AND good audio (like you heard) Anyway...thanks for listening - thanks for the post too....I've been a Gordon Lightfoot fan since the early 60's

[Manzanita949]

Why would you want to do that, though? Don't you want to hear and see him as he is now, not listen to a recording from the 70s? Every fan probably has that album! I like it unadulterated. If you don't, don't watch it!

[fangjangler]

I don't mind the sound at all, kind of hard to hear the lyrics...but the guitar sounds awesome.

[koz3e]

If you like banjo!!!!!

[johnnywonder2]

@Manzanita949 there is a nasty buzz in around the 12Khz, and it is driving me nuts. and gordon sounds like he's in a tunnel far far away.

[merlightfoot]

awesome footage pam =)

[Acadian78]

my lullabies as a child (believe it or not) sung by my father were SIT DOWN YOUNG STRANGER (and as i get older means so much more) and EARLY MORNING RAIN. :)

Saw Gordon last May in Halifax,NS , so glad I had that chance.

[midumidukkankutty]

any body having the song whispers of the north ??

[intoxyliser13]

There's no one better!

[merlightfoot]

wow he looks white. lol

[SomemillinWISC]

It's those Wicked Spotlights...

(We enjoyed your interviews)

John & Heather

[Mariposa0416Annie]

Beautiful! It takes a brave man to endure all the surgeries, and rehabilitation he has, in order to return to the stage. And it takes a very gifted man to write, sing and play the music we've been enjoying all these years!!!

[224clb22]

Gord's the best!

[kristysgodmother]

My favorite singer...He can't write a bad song. He's amazing.

[dhelfrich114]

Gord is a star

[gordon1938]

This song was my first intro (1972) to Lightfoot. The DJ gave the title/artist; I wrote it down & kept that paper in my wallet two years. Then one day I saw the album (thank God it's titled like the song or I might not have seen it). Got home with my 1st ever vinyl album, then thought sh-t! I didn't have an electric player (I had an old crank-up victrola). So next day I bought a player & almost played the music clean off that album! What a gift this man is!

[kelbo61]

That is such a beautiful memory!!! Awesome how it plays in your mind after all these years, eh?

[lplate67]

Oh what a cool story. :)

lol

[jackshaw]

I remember him from about that same time and I listen to his music I have on CD when I travel. Next to Vern Gosden, he's my favorite. I know how different they are, but they both have the most beautiful presence.

[TomConway666]

Perhaps my favourite Lightfoot song. Reminds me how we all are getting older. I will never forget seeing him sing this song at Massey Hall over 30 years ago. Devastating performance.

[kennewicksheri]

OooOH I love this song, love the singer, and only crave more and more.. each one.. touching

a singer.. with a story to tell....

keep them coming.. Gordon, I need more

[Rigel66]

Another great song by one of the greatest songwriters alive today!