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Gordon Lightfoot
Canadian singer-songwriter (–)
Musical artist
Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr.CC OOnt (November 17, – May 1, ) was a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist who achieved international success in folk, folk-rock, and country music. Credited with helping to define the folk-pop sound of the s and s,[1] he has been referred to as Canada's greatest songwriter,[2] having several gold and multi-platinum albums[3] and songs covered by some of the world's most renowned musical artists.[4] Lightfoot's biographer Nicholas Jennings said, "His name is synonymous with timeless songs about trains and shipwrecks, rivers and highways, lovers and loneliness."[5]
Lightfoot's songs, including "For Lovin' Me", "Early Morning Rain", "Steel Rail Blues", "Ribbon of Darkness"—a number one hit on the U.S. country chart[6] with Marty Robbins's cover in —and "Black Day in July", about the Detroit riot, brought him wide recog
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Gordon Lightfoot
Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr.[1] (November 17, – May 1, ) was a Canadian singer and songwriter. He is famous around the world for his folk, country, and pop music songs. He was first heard in the s. He had hit radio songs in the s including "If You Could Read My Mind", "Sundown", "Carefree Highway", "Rainy Day People" and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald".[2]
Some of his songs have been recorded by other famous singers including Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Marty Robbins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Barbra Streisand and Tony Rice.
Robbie Robertson of the Canadian music group called the Band said Lightfoot was his "favourite Canadian songwriter".[3]
Lightfoot's music career lasted sixty years. He recorded more than songs. His folk music of the s and s influenced many famous singers including Bob Dylan and Jim Croce. Like Robertson, Bob Dylan called Lightfoot one of his favourite songwriters.[4]
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The title track and first single of Gordon Lightfoot's new skiva, A Painter Passing Through, has a lot to do with the much-decorated artist who sings it.
"It's very autobiographical," says Lightfoot, who wrote the song and all but two of the 10 cuts on his new disc. "It's sort of the way I see myself now-or could see myself for quite a few years to komma. I vända 60 this year. I've settled down now, and I'm in this wonderful position of being allowed to man my own albums-and as usual, the songs on this skiva paint pictures."
Be they pictures of wildlife, like the symbolic bird of "Ringneck Loon," character sketches like the subway busker in "My Little Love," or Toronto cityscapes like "On Yonge Street," A Painter Passing Through fryst vatten full of the uplifting spirit and deep meaning that has marked "Gord" Lightfoot's extraordinary career. Since emerging from the Toronto folk club scene in the early '60s, the singer/