Gordon Lightfoot couldn't help but grin when the first returns for his Warner Bros.-Reprise "Sundown" album came in. Gordon Lightfoot in 1974. The title song and "Carefree Highway" from the album were ...

Gordon Lightfoot isn't unlike other 70-somethings. When reached in the early evening at his home in Toronto earlier this month, the folk singer was watching cable news. Lou Dobbs, to be exact. And ...

Singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, the Canadian folk music laureate who crossed over to major pop fame in the U.S. during the ‘70s, died of natural causes on Monday evening at Sunnybrook Hospital in ...

In the early 1970s, Gordon Lightfoot met a woman named Cathy Smith. They began a relationship, and the song “Sundown” documented their up-and-down love affair. At the time, Smith was a well-known ...

Billy Joel paid tribute to the late Gordon Lightfoot by performing the Canadian songwriting legend’s “Sundown” Friday at the Piano Man’s monthly visit to Madison Square Garden. “You might know him ...

A few Canadians, a Salsa dance party, a Celtic band, gospel music from the Deep South and bluegrass from the hills. The Riverside Live concert series will maintain its reputation for presenting an ...

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. Lightfoot died ...

So often it’s a girl — in this case, one named Beth, who Eric Elison was sweet on in high school and introduced him to Gordon Lightfoot before the 1974 “Sundown” album came out. “We went to her house ...

This interview with Gordon Lightfoot appeared in the Free Press on Oct. 28, 1974, just as his fame was beginning to skyrocket. Gordon Lightfoot couldn't help but grin when the first returns for his ...