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Canadian songwriter Gordon Lightfoot died this week. This is one of his classics, If You Could Read My Mind:

This is recorded at Gordon Lightfoot’s house in Toronto, during Bob Dylan‘s Rolling Thunder Revue tour; Joni Mitchell calls out chord changes to Dylan and Roger McGuinn (from The Byrds); it was her first performance of Coyote, written about her affair with actor/playwright Sam Shepard:

Tina Turner, The Queen of Rock, died this week. Vancouver rocker Bryan Adams wrote this song for Tina back in the early 1980s; Bryan revered Tina and she loved him – she invited him to play at her wedding. He was also forever grateful for touring as Tina’s opening act in Europe, where he was unknown at the time. It opened a whole new world for him. I sometimes see Bryan walk by my store – his Warehouse recording studio is a block away.

I like songs with whistling; I also love Taj Mahal. I like whistling along to this song when I’m alone:

Early Rolling Stones, written in L.A., unimpressed with their record company promo man:

This is Hey Joe by Jimi Hendrix right after he recorded it in England in 1967, the Summer of Love:

And here he is performing the song a few months later at the Monterey Pop Festival in California:

This song was banned in many countries because of heavy breathing and sexual content. Serge wrote the song for Bridgett Bardot, but she thought it was too sexy:

My favourite Leonard Cohen track:

I know I need a small vacation, but it don’t look like rain…

One New Year’s Eve, this surprise guest tried to sing Wichita Lineman with Patti Smith: