Posted April 18, 200817 yr well scotty reckons that no decent vocalist has come out of canada! lol... well ill draw your attention to gordon lightfoot. he only had 4 hits here in the 70's, but i rate every one of them! 99rOzMVtcx4 the wreck of the edmund fitzgerald...... a modern day folk song, superb! w43-gvA_Qsw daylight katie rR3H0iiwHdg if you could read my mind and my fav ZtzmjM3Q3O8 sundown
April 18, 200817 yr I love If I Could Read Your Mind. As for no decent vocalists out of Canada, is Scotty mad??? So the likes of (in alphabetical order) Jane Arden, Randy Bachman (Guess Who / Bachman Turner Overdrive), Tal Bachman, Michael Buble, Basia Bulat, Win Butler (Arcade Fire), Jane Child, Rick Danko (The Band), Feist, Nelly Furtado, Diana Krall, K.D. Lang, Gordan Lightfoot, Anna & Kate McGarrigle, Sarah McLachlan, Joni Mitchell, Alanis Morissette, Alannah Myles, Robbie Robertson (The Band), Buffy Sainte-Marie, Ron Sexsmith, R.Dean Taylor, Shania Twain, Martha & Rufus Wainwright are all rubbish vocalists?
April 18, 200817 yr I love If I Could Read Your Mind. If You Could Read My Mind was probably his best known (and certainly my favourite) COD. You don't mind if I call you COD do you? Sundown is a really close second and I do like the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald (although its a bloody depressing song). By the way, Rufus Wainwright was born in New York. Norma Edited April 18, 200817 yr by Norma_Snockers
April 18, 200817 yr By the way, Rufus Wainwright was born in New York. Norma True. Also Wim Butler was born in Texas. But the point being (it's the Olivia Newton-John debate all over again), it does not matter where they were born, but what nationality they are, and Rufus Wainwright & Wim Butler both very definitely regard themselves as Canadian. As evidenced by their passports and the fact they've both won Best Canadian Male Vocalist of the Year (Rufus 1999 & 2002, Wim 2005 & 2008) at the Junos (The Canadian equivalent of the BRITs or Grammies).
April 18, 200817 yr I like what I've heard from Gordon Lightfoot, he was probably my guilty pleasure in the 70s, I liked just about every single I heard by him on the radio. My favourite by him is a song which was on the US Hot 100 30 years ago today, "The Circle Is Small (I Can See It In Your Eyes)". Excellent song.
April 18, 200817 yr I've always liked If You Could Read My Mind. Great song! I know it isn't exactly retro, but Johnny Cash did a terrific version of that song on his final recording American V - A Hundred Highways.
April 19, 200817 yr Author Sundown is a really close second and I do like the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald (although its a bloody depressing song). yeah but thats the point... besides i was big into traditional folk music in the 70's (steeleye span mainly) and 90% of that was about death in some form! :lol: so edmund fitgerald was quite understandable to me... i thought of gordon because we had him in the pop quiz on thursday, sundown..... love it!
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