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David Gittlin
Dec 2, 20221 min read
Early Lightfoot Love
“Song for a Winter’s Night” is one of Gordon Lightfoot’s earliest love songs. It is also one of his biggest hits. As folk music became...
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David Gittlin
Nov 21, 20221 min read
Simple, Honest, Transparent, Beautiful
In a ten-year career tragically cut short by Leukemia, Kate Wolf wrote and performed over 200 songs. Her music is poignant,...
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David Gittlin
Nov 15, 20221 min read
“The Wind in My Soul”
Cat Stevens rose to prominence as a folk and pop artist in the 1970’s. I’ve always enjoyed the thread of childlike innocence and...
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David Gittlin
Nov 11, 20221 min read
A Transcendent Voice
Photo by Nick Fang Hi everyone. The voice I’m referring to here is not mine. It belongs to Kate Wolf (1942-1986). She wrote and performed...
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David Gittlin
May 11, 20222 min read
Shadows Of Love
Gordon Lightfoot is one of those rare individuals who resides in the top echelon of his profession. It takes a huge deposit of raw...
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David Gittlin
Apr 16, 20222 min read
The Gift
Jim Brickman at the Los Angeles Gracie Awards in 2013 Jim Brickman collaborated with Tom Douglas to write “The Gift.” Jim wrote the...
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David Gittlin
Feb 16, 20222 min read
Time After Time
Time After Time is a Cyndi Lauper song. I’ve never been a big fan of her music, but that only means it doesn’t resonate with me in...
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David Gittlin
Dec 28, 20211 min read
Acoustic Guitar Cover of Don McLean's "Crossroads" With Background Intro
“Crossroads” is another great song by Don McLean. It first appeared on his hit album, “American Pie.” Although the song is not as...
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David Gittlin
Oct 28, 20212 min read
“Vincent” Revisited
I’m reposting a blog previously titled “Vincent: A True Lover.” I’ve decided to re-learn the song closer to the original. “Starry, starry...
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David Gittlin
Sep 27, 20211 min read
Kathy’s Song Eva Style
Who doesn’t remember Simon and Garfunkle singing Kathy’s song? The answer is probably tons of people under the age of thirty, but who’s...
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David Gittlin
Aug 20, 20211 min read
Where Does The Time Go?
Fifty years have flown by at supersonic speed. I can flash back on memories of my childhood and adolescence and remember them clearly as...
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David Gittlin
Jul 11, 20212 min read
An Unfinished Life
“I live for a sense of a feeling of purposefulness in this world, you know, that I could stop my life at any point and feel that my life...
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David Gittlin
May 3, 20211 min read
Acoustic Guitar Cover of "Throw A Stone In The Water" and "It Doesn't Matter Anymore"
Kate Wolf left a legacy of over two hundred songs that she recorded and performed in live concert. I’ve played a number of those songs...
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David Gittlin
Apr 16, 20211 min read
The Gathering Of Spirits
I had never heard of Carrie Newcomer before a friend played one of her songs in an online gazing/meditation class. “The Gathering of...
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David Gittlin
Mar 10, 20211 min read
Awakening Vision
There is beauty within us. There is beauty everywhere in the world. All we have to do is to want to feel it and see it. Even in the...
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David Gittlin
Jan 25, 20211 min read
Love In An Open Field
“Lay me Down Easy” is technically a blues song. To me, the song sounds upbeat with a whisper of the blues in the background. And there’s...
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David Gittlin
Jan 19, 20211 min read
Beauty In Blue
I first heard “Cornflower Blue” as the opening song on Kate Wolf’s 1983 double album “Give Yourself to Love.” As I listened to the...
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David Gittlin
Dec 24, 20201 min read
Looking Back On Warm Times With Friends
“With a voice that has all the sweetness of a California morning and the loneliness of the sea beating against its rocky shores, it’s a...
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David Gittlin
Dec 6, 20201 min read
Vincent: A True Lover
“Starry, starry night/ Paint your palette blue and grey/ Look out on a summer’s day/ With eyes that know the darkness in my soul.” Those...
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David Gittlin
Oct 26, 20201 min read
“Give Yourself to Love”
Kate Wolf came to prominence during a ten year period from 1975 to 1985. Tragically, Leukemia brought Kate’s life and singer/songwriting...
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