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 ...

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. ...

Gordon Lightfoot always seemed older than his years, a notion buttressed by how the singer-songwriter became a star when he was well into his thirties. “If You Could Read My Mind” and “Sundown,” the ...

The post Gordon Lightfoot, Canada’s Bard, Dead at 84 appeared first on Consequence. Gordon Lightfoot, the legendary Canadian singer-songwriter, has died at the age of 84. “Gordon Lightfoot passed away ...