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Music's Lost History Artist Edition All He Wanted To Do Was Tell Stories · Arroe Collins Music's Lost History

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  Speaker 1: Hey, thanks for coming back to Music's Lost History, the
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  Speaker 1: artist edition. A total slow burner this time around. That's
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  Speaker 1: how critics truly describe this Canadian singer-songwriter. It didn't become
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  Speaker 1: instant fame for this dude. No, no, no, no. He
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  Speaker 1: was writing song after song after song for many years,
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  Speaker 1: a true love and passion from someone who was performing
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  Speaker 1: on a live stage at the age of 13, completely
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  Speaker 1: fascinated with folk music, country and traditional. Those days on
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  Speaker 1: a live stage in Canada were spent on Toronto's coffee scene. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about not Starbucks, but Canadian coffee. And there
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  Speaker 1: was no delivery at the time. He was never interested
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  Speaker 1: in trying to be a rock star. No, his life
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  Speaker 1: was about the storytelling. He credits Ian and Sylvia Tyson
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  Speaker 1: for discovering his songwriting. They recorded two of those tunes
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  Speaker 1: in 1964, Every Morning Rain and For Loving Me. Then
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  Speaker 1: it began to happen for Gordon. His name and writing
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  Speaker 1: were starting to rise. In fact, he was more famous
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  Speaker 1: in the music business than he was in the public eye. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: coming up next, the singer-songwriter and now collaborator with Bob
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  Speaker 1: Dylan's manager? Who is this guy? Hey, thanks for coming
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  Speaker 1: back to Music's Lost History. We're talking about a singer
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  Speaker 1: songwriter who now made a collaboration with Bob Dylan's manager, Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Albert Grossman. He signed Gordon to a recording label in 1965.
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  Speaker 1: That deal put him inside a huge circle of other
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  Speaker 1: American folk music writers. And one year later, his vocals
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  Speaker 1: finally made it to record collectors and AM radio. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: his popularity in Canada was quickly locked in on Party Mode,
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  Speaker 1: a true celebration of building that fan base. Then came
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  Speaker 1: the song, If You Could Read My Mind. Now guess what?
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  Speaker 1: The question was, who's going to play this thing? How
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  Speaker 1: about the Pied Pipers of rock and roll? The radio
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  Speaker 1: disc jockeys who jumped off their playlist and decided to
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  Speaker 1: spin the song as a deep cut? It broke down
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  Speaker 1: the walls between Canada and the United States, making him
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  Speaker 1: a household name on the American radio scene. His fame
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  Speaker 1: will always be his unmistakable voice. He didn't chase trends.
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  Speaker 1: He was always about telling that story. The man we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about is the legendary Gordon Lightfoot. That's Music's Lost History.
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  Speaker 1: My name is Arrow.