SuperWonderBang

When I was a child, my father was a traveling salesman. He would travel to all these small towns all over south Georgia and north Florida. In the summers, he would take me with him. We would be gone for a week at a time, sharing hotel rooms, sharing the adventures of the road, and sharing the delicious food at all the tiny out of the way BBQ restaurants.

The other thing we did was play harmonica and sing songs. Not with the radio, but just from our own recollection. Well, really my Dad’s recollection. One of my favorite songs that we sang back then was Gordon Lightfoot’s Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald (see video below). Something about the distilled despair and sadness in the song resonated with me.

So, I’m very excited to say the I get to see the inimitable Gordon Lightfoot at TPAC tonight. My buddy Dave is going to be there and so is Kim. My wife is going, too. I’m thinking I might tear up a bit when he starts into Edmund Fitzgerald.

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