Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Playlist for May 6 Concert: "50 Years on the Carefree Highway Tour"



May 6 concert at Devos Performance Center in Grand Rapids, MI.

 It was a great time Monday night at the 50 Years on the Carefree Highway concert, and as always it's exciting to be at a Gordon Lightfoot performance. He and the band sounded great, and the hall was packed with loyal fans who were lucky to hear a good mix of both older and newer songs, many of which I mentioned in my 50 Days blogs. We hummed and sang along, and at one point a group finished a song for him. Probably happens often. I couldn't even begin to say which ones were my favorites but the highlights of any GL concert are always The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and If You Could Read My Mind. We heard both. I also especially enjoyed Don Quixote, I'd Rather Press On, Beautiful and The Watchman's Gone.

Thank you Gordon Lightfoot for your music, your songs, and the 50 years you've been writing and singing for us on the Carefree Highway.

Triangle                                                                    

The Watchman’s Gone

Don Quixote

I’d Rather Press On

Wild Strawberries

Waiting for You

Christian Island

Rainy Day People

Shadows

Beautiful

Let It Ride

Carefree Highway

Cotton Jenny

Ribbon of Darkness

Ring Neck Loon

Sundown

Drink Your Glasses Empty

Sweet Guinevere

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Never Too Close

All the Lovely Ladies

Make Way for the Ladies

In My Fashion

Painter Passing Through

If You Could Read my Mind

Baby Step Back

Early Mornin’ Rain

Song for a Winter’s Night

Encore: Ring them Bells

 


2 comments:

KatB said...

Thank you for your sweet reply in the MMRWA forum! So great that you got to see Gordon Lightfoot in concert - Sundown was always one of my favorites. And some of those 70's artists sure still have it! We saw John Fogerty (Creedence Clearwater Revival) in concert a few years ago and for a man nearly 70 years old, he sounded the same as the day they recorded "Up Around The Bend." :)

Lucy Naylor Kubash said...

I always loved CCR, too! Nothing like those bands and singers from the 60s and 70s. I'm so glad that many of them are still touring and performing for us.