Great music, about real life. Thanks for sharing your music with us, Gordon.
Thank you.
Always have enjoyed him, and had the pleasure of working in a folk club (washing dishes) when he played there. Canadian folk music is great, and they’ve given us a lot of fine artists.
I believe he appears at the end of this song by Ian and Sylvia: (4 Strong Winds) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3m7ckGhnsc
Okay, I know a lot of people detest this song, but my favorite is The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. I was born and raised on the shores of Lake Erie and I remember like it was yesterday seeing the big Fitz coming in and out of the harbor. That wreck was a huge deal where I came from and I think of it every time I see a dark, stormy November sky. Love that song. Great tribute.
Another one from the wayback machine, and still very accurate..
My wife and I were having dinner in a pub in Ireland last week. There was a guitar duo playing and singing there. I noticed the timber of the singer’s voice was similar to Gordon Lightfoot’s. I complimented them for their music, bought them a couple pints of Guinness and asked them to play a Gordon Lightfoot song. They played Sundown. It was an enjoyable evening.
He’s now 78.
Hold on to your hats. Kris Kristofferson is 81.
They’re both still performing.
Those numbers just don’t seem right.
I learned how to play guitar because of him. Don Quixote was my fave.
When I saw the Sundown cover, I had a stab of fear that he had passed on.
I worked a venue as a Tech Director a while back.
He and his crew were the nicest, and most courteous folk.
I have seen him several times, has the same guys he’s had since the sixties. Great show, every time.
I heard that Sundown was the name of some groupie that was around at the time, and that she was the chick who eventually shot up John Belushi.
I love his music, both the old and the new.
PS I vote Canadian Railroad Trilogy as his best song.
An actual LIVE performance of a great song.
I saw Gordon Lightfoot at least 3 or 4 times back in the early to mid 70’s. His older music is still the best and his Canadian Railroad Trilogy is still my favorite song of his as well as the whole Don Quixote album. The 2 best concerts I ever to went to were his concert at the old Kennedy Pavilion on the Gonzaga University campus in Spokane in June of 1971 right when I graduated from HS and Mason Proffit a week later also at GU. I still love both Gordon Lightfoot’s music and the music of John Michael and Terry Talbot of Mason Profit fame. They had a new album out a few years ago called Still Hanging which includes the song Old Guys Rule and a very stirring version of Amazing Grace. John Michael Talbot’s album The God Of Life is the only essential album I’d own if I were all by myself on a desert island, it’s that good.
Sit Down Young Stranger from his If You Could Read My Mind album in 1971 which he performed in the concert at GU is my second favorite Gordon Lightfoot song and that whole album is incredible as well. Mason Proffit’s song Two Hangman is still the same message song as it was back then when I first heard it on our local progressive FM radio station KREM FM back in 1970, that’s the way it was described by the DJ when I first heard it.
Relaxing Sweet Music ! That’s Going Back Home For Me, I’m Still Listening !
Love Gordon Lightfoot!
Here are a couple more from way back.
Bobby Hebb – Sunny (1966)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEMPwJ9ScBw
Bill Withers – Ain’t No Sunshine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIdIqbv7SPo
Great music, about real life. Thanks for sharing your music with us, Gordon.
Thank you.
Always have enjoyed him, and had the pleasure of working in a folk club (washing dishes) when he played there. Canadian folk music is great, and they’ve given us a lot of fine artists.
I believe he appears at the end of this song by Ian and Sylvia: (4 Strong Winds)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3m7ckGhnsc
Okay, I know a lot of people detest this song, but my favorite is The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. I was born and raised on the shores of Lake Erie and I remember like it was yesterday seeing the big Fitz coming in and out of the harbor. That wreck was a huge deal where I came from and I think of it every time I see a dark, stormy November sky. Love that song. Great tribute.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwPRm5UMe1A
Another one from the wayback machine, and still very accurate..
My wife and I were having dinner in a pub in Ireland last week. There was a guitar duo playing and singing there. I noticed the timber of the singer’s voice was similar to Gordon Lightfoot’s. I complimented them for their music, bought them a couple pints of Guinness and asked them to play a Gordon Lightfoot song. They played Sundown. It was an enjoyable evening.
He’s now 78.
Hold on to your hats. Kris Kristofferson is 81.
They’re both still performing.
Those numbers just don’t seem right.
I learned how to play guitar because of him. Don Quixote was my fave.
When I saw the Sundown cover, I had a stab of fear that he had passed on.
I worked a venue as a Tech Director a while back.
He and his crew were the nicest, and most courteous folk.
I have seen him several times, has the same guys he’s had since the sixties. Great show, every time.
I heard that Sundown was the name of some groupie that was around at the time, and that she was the chick who eventually shot up John Belushi.
I love his music, both the old and the new.
PS I vote Canadian Railroad Trilogy as his best song.
An actual LIVE performance of a great song.
I saw Gordon Lightfoot at least 3 or 4 times back in the early to mid 70’s. His older music is still the best and his Canadian Railroad Trilogy is still my favorite song of his as well as the whole Don Quixote album. The 2 best concerts I ever to went to were his concert at the old Kennedy Pavilion on the Gonzaga University campus in Spokane in June of 1971 right when I graduated from HS and Mason Proffit a week later also at GU. I still love both Gordon Lightfoot’s music and the music of John Michael and Terry Talbot of Mason Profit fame. They had a new album out a few years ago called Still Hanging which includes the song Old Guys Rule and a very stirring version of Amazing Grace. John Michael Talbot’s album The God Of Life is the only essential album I’d own if I were all by myself on a desert island, it’s that good.
Sit Down Young Stranger from his If You Could Read My Mind album in 1971 which he performed in the concert at GU is my second favorite Gordon Lightfoot song and that whole album is incredible as well. Mason Proffit’s song Two Hangman is still the same message song as it was back then when I first heard it on our local progressive FM radio station KREM FM back in 1970, that’s the way it was described by the DJ when I first heard it.