So many brilliant songwriters came out of Canada in the Sixties — legends like Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, and Robbie Robertson — that the talents of Gordon Lightfoot are sometimes ...

Lightfoot was doing well in Canada for a while, but it was “If You Could Read My Mind” from 1970 that piqued interest in his music among listeners down south. The song was a big US hit that peaked at ...

KEARNEY — It all started with a crush. “I had a girl I was sweet on in high school who introduced me to Gordon Lightfoot,” said musician Eric Elison in an interview from his home in Colorado Springs. ...

Michiganders remembered Gordon Lightfoot, a Canadian folk singer who died Monday at 84 and who told stories through song, one of the best known being "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," an unlikely ...

Gordon Lightfoot made me appreciate men. Not romantically — I’d had crushes on boys well before I ever heard his music — but empathetically. and my pockets full of sand. These were the people whose ...

Gordon Lightfoot, the Canadian singer-songwriter whose graceful and literate songwriting made him one of the most respected folk-rooted musicians to emerge in the 1960s, died on Monday in a Toronto ...

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Legendary folk-rock singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot has died at the age of 84. The musician passed Monday evening (May 1) in Toronto, where he had been hospitalized recently. "It is with profound ...

Gordon Lightfoot, the influential Canadian singer/songwriter best known for songs like “If You Could Read My Mind,” “Sundown,” “Early Morning Rain,” and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” has died ...

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