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Gordon Lightfoot onstage during 2018 Stagecoach California's Country Music Festival at the Empire Polo Field in Indio, California. (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for Stagecoach) Social Sharing ...
Gordon Lightfoot, “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” (1976) Respect must be paid to this statuesque epic in both its 6:30 album version and its 5:57 single (!) edit – a track worth its own ...
Gordon Lightfoot, the Canadian singer-songwriter whose enduring folk hits included “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” and “Sundown,” died Monday, his spokesperson told CNN. He was 84.
Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian folk legend, dies at 84 The Canadian singer-songwriter wrote classics like "If You Could Read My Mind," "Early Morning Rain" and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald." ...
Gordon Onslow Ford, an artist whose mystical abstract paintings sought to express the "inner worlds" beyond the visible one, died Sunday at his Inverness home of a stroke. He was 90.
Gordon Lightfoot in performance in London in 1973. When he moved beyond folk music and began writing ballads aimed at a broader audience in the 1970s, he scored one hit after another.
In the view of legendary Canadian singer/songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, the folk-music revival was “really only in vogue for three years” before The Beatles burst on the music scene. And by the ...
Rediscovering them recently on a pair of CDs, Lightfoot’s decision to reinterpret the 10 songs on his own with just his guitar results in one of his most direct and intimate albums.
Dozens of Gordon Lightfoot's personal belongings — including guitars, artwork, even his highest awards — are up for grabs in an auction that has some fans questioning why the items ...
In Gordon Lightfoot's songbook, art is for everyone. Andrea Warner | CBC Music | Posted: May 2, 2023 5:14 PM | Last Updated: May 15, 2023. How the songwriter’s utilitarian approach to ...
Gordon Lightfoot’s first studio album since 2004 finds him displaying the pillars of his songwriting on “Solo,” a brave and unvarnished work teeming with maps of roads taken and avoided ...
Gordon Lightfoot, “Solo” (Rhino)Gordon Lightfoot’s first studio album since 2004 finds him displaying the pillars of his songwriting on “Solo,” a brave and unvarnished work teeming with ...