Song 755: This week the playlist comes around to Song for a Winter's Night by Gordon Lightfoot, who also wrote the song, and you can find a YouTube video of it by clicking on the title. Not long after I got to Northwestern University in the late summer of 1969, I started hearing and learning a lot more about the music I liked. Being a singer/songwriter type myself, I added some LPs to my collection by folkies like Judy Collins and that new James Taylor fellow. In the fall of 1970, I expanded my interest in the Gordon guy and soon had a few of his 33s in my stack, including The Way I Feel, which contains this gem. It didn't take long to learn the lines and melodies as the disc got plenty of spins on the turntable. Living in the Chicago area for most of that decade, during the darker months I would often notice when the snow was softly falling, and then, when the morning light would steal across my window pane, I could tell where some webs of snow were drifting.
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