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John Fenske

Are these days really gone?

Caelroigh Blunt

+Great Tunes! This is NOT Gordon Lightfoot. I have the album, I've seen the man in concert. THIS IS NOT GORDON LIGHTFOOT. Shame on you for misrepresenting a great artist with a rank imitator. Find a little class.

StagPreston

Yes, this was recorded live at La Cave in 1965 with a small crowd of about 22 people. I know, because I personally provided the master recording I had of it to the record company pictured above, Kuala records. It's not actually a "Bootleg" album, but it is a "Tax Shelter" album. The record label was set up to provide tax shelters to individuals. These tax shelters were originally set up by the Reagan administration as tax havens for his rich buddies who were oil producers. Somehow, tax attorneys figured out a way to apply those laws to entertainment projects like recordings. So, small investors could "invest" ten thousand dollars in this record, but actually write off a hundred thousand dollars over a period of several years. But these tax shelters were declared to be "Abusive" and were eventually disallowed, only because it was "normal" people like you and I that were able to take advantage of these tax write-offs, and not just Reagan's rich oil producing pals and contributers. This is EXACTLY what got Willie Nelson in to so much trouble with the IRS. He also invested in these tax shelters as a tax write off, and the IRS said "We're disallowing it" But Willie's tax lawyers fought it for ten years. When the IRS finally won the lawsuit against Willie, Willie had to not only pay the back taxes, but all the PENALTIES that accumulated for the ten years. At any rate, Lightfoot put a "cease and Desist" on the company for issuing the record, because he said it "misrepresented him. And it did. They included another singer on the album, without listing that another singer was doing half of the songs. Essentially, they took the 14 songs I provided to them and SPLIT it between two different albums, but padding each album with some "no name" singer. There was an old copyright law that allowed the legal release of "live" recordings prior to 1971, because up to that point "Live" recordings were considered to be in the "public domain" , unless they were actually copywritten at the time by the record label or artist, which these were not. In fact. Lightfoot's first album had not even been issued at this point. I had dozens of live recordings by many different artists that all fell into this category, so I also benefited by selling these masters to the tax shelter companies. Eventually, the IRS took the people who ran the company to court and "disallowed" them as a legitimate record enterprise. One person went to prison, but the actuall owner of the label got a slap on the wrist and had to pay a small fine. The millions of dollars the owner made from the hundreds of tax shelters he set up for ordinary working guys had him crying all the way to the bank. Moral of this story. Ordinary people should not try to take advantage of tax loopholes set up by republican lawyers which were intended to only benefit rich people in the first place. During the concert, Gordon mentioned that "Ribbon of Darkness" had just charted a few weeks earlier by Marty Robbins. George Hamilton did "Steel Rail Blues" a few months later. After that Peter Paul and Mary did "For Loving Me", and Gordon's career was off and running. Peter, Paul and Mary were managed by Albert Grossman. As Grossman's biggest act, he had them introduce songs by OTHER acts he managed, like Gordon Lightfoot and Bob Dylan. P, P and M introduced Dylan to the world with "Blowing in the Wind" and "Don't Think Twice". A great marketing person, Grossman managed PP and M, Dylan, Lightfoot, Ian and Sylvia, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Crosby Stills and Nash, and the list goes on forever..... 

jennifur sun

thank you soo much for finally getting the balance of this song right. it's my fav Gordon tune love it

forestsoceansmusic

Here's a white man with Soul.

Thomas Laugeness

Great artist, to bad today's so called "artists" have no talent, except for twerking and girating like an idiot.

Deanna Knudsen

adore

Chris York

who woo woo woooo

Jane Janssen

I have the original album. it was a gift from my brother-in-law. I love it!!!!!

Jennifur Sun

aah this is soo frustrating. i had an old LP with this song on it and it was faster and the intro was different, but no one has that version>

TheTinyManatte

I am 13.

neptunisregis11

one of the favorites on the juke box 1969, the bars in williams lake B.C.

Crazy Horse

Don't worry. I firmly believe redemption comes to all.

dodoproductions14

Hey like i said i'm 12! Don't you worry im going to pass on the importance of these types of musicians to my children. Check out my channel for some Johnny Cash stuff i do...

dodoproductions14

First time i heard this song and love it. Now i'm planning on buying the album. I'm only 12 and i hope my children will love this music also.

play 3ds

This song breaks my heart in the best way possible.

howtoplanaparty

The writer of "Freight Train" came to my school in Maryland in 1966. Libba Cotton. She was aged.

yetiboy713

Definiatley, such a shame isn't it?. I'm well aware age shouldn't matter, but I should like to point out that I'm 17 and I've grown up on music like this. Infact this guy's my favorite. Got to see him in concert, Like I said once, at about 72 or so yrs old, the old canadian's still got it.

Sarah Lahaye Mann

Your comment is perfect.

SierraRailway

I do, I kinda grew up listening to him. My dad always used to listen to him, and I caught on.

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