restless reformer

“Every time I hear a Gordon Lightfoot song, I wish it would never end.”  ~ Bob Dylan

Had my dad not popped in an old “Gord’s Gold” tape when I was 11 years old, I would have continued ignoring the whole subject of music for who knows how long.  Gord rocks, despite the fact that he’s a folk musician, […]

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You don’t hear about this part of John Lennon’s life very often:
Next came one of the most extraordinary turnabouts in John’s life. A television addict for many years (it was his way of looking at the world since he could no longer walk around anonymously), he enjoyed watching some of America’s […]

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One of my favorite musicians, and the greatest songwriter of the last 100 years (or more), Bob Dylan has been awarded an honorary Pultitzer Prize.
I’m a few albums behind on Dylan - I missed “Love and Theft” and “Time Out of Mind” and went straight to “Modern Times.” “Modern Times” is brilliant, and I’ve […]

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If you’re a fan of these musicians (as you should be, since they’re all tremendous), this is hilarious.

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There are few better songs to remember what happened on that Thursday night during Holy Week than Michael Cards, “The Basin and the Towel.”

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Andrew Peterson - 5 times as the main act.
Bob Dylan - 5 times, main act.
Bebo Norman - 4 times, 3 as main act, 1 as opening.
Barenaked Ladies - 4 times, main act.
Gordon Lightfoot - 5 times as main act.
Caedmons Call - 2 times as main act (both times before Derek Webb left).
Moxy Fruvous - 2 […]

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Taking a quick break from writing, I just went looking for a Gordon Lightfoot page on Facebook for mindless fun. The biggest group had something like 350 members, and all the others had far, far less. So I thought to myself, as you would think to yourself, “This has got to be the […]

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I remember being a young kid and having little tantrums every time my dad put Bob Dylan on in the car. There was no escape in the car! At home, we could go to a different room or make him put his headphones on. In the car, we were stuck.
My dad was […]

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Derek Webb has rejoined Caedmon’s Call.
That does it. I’m officially a postmillenialist now.

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Two Andrew Peterson albums for free listening online:
The Far Country

Behold the Lamb of God

Doesn’t get any better than this, folks.  Listen to them and buy them.
HT to Sacred Journey

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 Bob Dylan has called modern methods of recording and distributing music “atrocious.”  (HT to Wyman at BHT) This is an odd statement, to say the least.  My Dylan CDs definitely sound better than my Dylan tapes.  I’m not sure what he’s getting at here.
I’ll bet you anything he’s walked himself right into being the brunt […]

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 I love comeback stories.  Being a Buffalo Bills fan, it’s nice to have the greatest comeback in sports history on your record (especially with those 4 lost Super Bowls in a row also being on your record).  But my favorite comeback story of late is that of Canadian singer/songwriter Gordon Lightfoot.  In his “on again, […]

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