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 ...

Gordon Lightfoot, the Canadian singer-songwriter known for so many hits, died on Monday at the age of 84. As USA TODAY wrote: "Considered one of the most renowned voices to emerge from Toronto’s ...

It feels like Gordon Lightfoot has always been with me. I mean, was there ever a time when “Old Dan’s Records,” “Canadian Railroad Trilogy,” “If You Could Read My Mind,” “Sundown” and “Cotton Jenny” ...

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 ...

Gordon Lightfoot turned a brief news item about a Great Lakes tragedy into one of the most haunting songs ever written — an elegy that still echoes 50 years later.

Fifty years ago, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior, killing 29 crew members. Gordon Lightfoot's haunting ballad immortalized the tragedy forever.

Gordon Lightfoot, Canada’s legendary folk singer-songwriter known for “If You Could Read My Mind” and “Sundown” and for songs that told tales of Canadian identity, died on Monday. He was 84.

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 ...

TORONTO — Gordon Lightfoot, Canada’s legendary folk singer-songwriter known for “If You Could Read My Mind” and “Sundown” and for songs that told tales of Canadian identity, died on Monday. He was 84.

The Grammy-nominated Lightfoot was regarded as one of Canada's greatest musicians, and found success in the United States with '70s classics "Sundown" and "If You Could Read My Mind." Joey Nolfi is a ...

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. He was 84. His ...