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The Waukesha County Fair’s headline double-billing featuring Don and Grand Funk Railroad is scheduled for tonight, however, the entire southeastern region of Wisconsin has been suffering through some severe weather over the past 24 hours. A similar situation including heavy rain, high winds and potential flooding was forecast for today.

We’re huge fans of open air live concerts but draw the line before band members are electrocuted by soggy guitars or knocked out by flying stage debris. On the other hand, the organizers stand to take a beating financially in a situation like this, so much so that the Waukesha County Fair issued this press release asking the community for their support despite the storms.

Here’s hoping the weather holds for Don’s show. If you’re attending and manage to hang on to your camera, we’d appreciate a re-cap and photos.

Don moves on to play a public benefit event at the Epic in Minneapolis tomorrow evening.

We’ve been Gordon Lightfoot fans for a long time. Even back before it was hip.

But asking us to name our favorite from his 250+ song catalog is like, well, asking us to choose a favorite child. We can, however, easily place “Canadian Railroad Trilogy” in our top five without having to second guess, simply because THE ACOUSTIC GUITAR ARRANGEMENT AND PERFORMANCE OF THIS TUNE IS AWESOME, whether it’s a studio recording or live version. The song demonstrates how Gord basically put the word “song” in “songwriting.”

So what do we care that the Trilogy, which Lightfoot was commissioned to write by the CBC for a 1966 television documentary commemorating the railway’s centennial, will be made into an illustrated book for release later this year?

Because the lyrics are damned awesome as well. You see, Lightfoot was also responsible for putting the word “writer” in “songwriter.”

It’s day two of the Moondance Jam classic rock festival in Walker, MN. Don takes the stage at 7 pm CDT (-0500 UTC) followed by Pat Benatar and REO Speedwagon.

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