RIP Gordon Lightfoot

[Brad]

He died today in a Toronto hospital. He was 84. One of the greats.

Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian Folk Singer, Dies at 84

RIP

 

[mjzee]

About three years ago, Amazon offered the complete Gordon Lightfoot on Reprise in mp3 format for $7.99.  I snapped it up.  It was a joy listening to it all.  This song was an instant ear worm:

R.I.P.

[felser]

RIP, loved his 60's UA work, and some of the very early 70's Reprise material.

[soulpope]

R.I.P ....

[danasgoodstuff]

As much a Canadian cultural icon as the Group of Seve (8, 9, whatever).

[Stompin at the Savoy]

A high school friend introduced me to Gordon Lightfoot around '69 and I had the first album.  I was trying to learn to play folk guitar and I remember being very perplexed by the guitar playing on the record.  After a while I realized he was playing a 12 string and there were multiple guitars!

[Aggie87]

I just moved to AZ, and drive down this namesake road almost every day.  

[Teasing the Korean]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZlrrwUIwcE

[sgcim]

I heard an interview with him once in which he said that his first love in life was to be a jazz arranger. He even went to Berklee to study jazz arranging!

Then a Black Day in July came along...

[soulpope]

9 hours ago, Aggie87 said:

I just moved to AZ, and drive down this namesake road almost every day.  

🧐😁 ....

[Balladeer]

Somehow "if you could read my mind" had been among those songs that accompanied my youth.
 Johnny Cash covered this great song  with a moving version on the fifth album of his
 American Recording Series.

RIP

[soulpope]

4 hours ago, Balladeer said:

Johnny Cash covered this great song  with a moving version on the fifth album of his
 American Recording Series.

😍 ....

[sgcim]

On 5/4/2023 at 8:35 PM, sgcim said:

I heard an interview with him once in which he said that his first love in life was to be a jazz arranger. He even went to Berklee to study jazz arranging!

Then a Black Day in July came along...

One thing I'll never understand is that he never recorded one of his best tunes, "I Can't Make It Anymore". Richie Havens did a version that was fine, but a little too fast for my taste, and McKendree Spring did a version that was perfection. There were a few other not so good recordings of it, but we'll never get to hear GL's versioon.