Gordon Lightfoot dead at 84.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gordon-lightfoot-dies-age-84-singer-wreck-of-the-edmund-fitzgerald

My parents liked him. They even went to one of his concerts. RIP.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I listen to his music all the time. Always been very popular in our household.


Discovered him via a shipwreck documentary series in 1999 that included the Edmund Fitzgerald and played his song at the end of that episode.

[All Along The Watchtower]

One of Canada’s finest. RIP.

[T'Chenka]

Heartbreaking news.

[Meclazine for Israel]

Had that great song "Sundown, you better take care if I find you've been sleepin' round my back stair."

That was iconic. But my favourite of his was the one about a ship on the Great Lakes.

Gordon Lightfoot

The Legend of Edmund Fitzgerald

https://youtu.be/FuzTkGyxkYI

R.I.P.

[Cassius]

A beautiful wordsmith, as shown, I think, by one of my favourites of his below. RIP.

[Averroës Nix]

RIP. My favorite of his:

It's impossible to listen to this one without remembering one of my geography professors from undergrad, who was Calgary born and raised, playing it.

[vitoNova]

Kinda looks like a young Don Henley. 

Never noticed that before. 

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

RIP. My favorite of his:

It's impossible to listen to this one without remembering one of my geography professors from undergrad, who was Calgary born and raised, playing it.

Listen to it most every Wednesday as part of Gord's Gold Volume I.

Gords Gold Volume II has some favorites of mine also. "Race Among the Ruins" and "Christian Island", the latter of which is very soothing and has helped get me through some tough spots.

I also have been known to reference "Ghosts of Cape Horn" a lot, specifically the lines "And you read all your letter's from oceans away and you took them to the bottom of the sea". I posted these lines when the TPP dissolved in early 2013, for example.

[Alben Barkley]

Listening to "Sundown" right now in tribute to a legend. Some of my earliest memories are actually sitting in my parents' car listening to this song and "If You Could Read My Mind" among others. I distinctly remember the vivid imagery the lyrics of the latter painted in my young mind, was absolutely gripping to me. And that was before I even understood what the song was really about; it took on later significance to me as a song I turned to in the wake of painful break-ups, which makes the song actually painful to listen to today in a way few others are. In any case, it was really my first exposure to this kind of music. All-time great singer/songwriter. RIP.

[FairBol]

Had that great song "Sundown, you better take care if I find you've been sleepin' round my back stair."

That was iconic. But my favourite of his was the one about a ship on the Great Lakes.

Gordon Lightfoot

The Legend of Edmund Fitzgerald

https://youtu.be/FuzTkGyxkYI

R.I.P.

That's "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald". 

[Benjamin Frank]

One of my happiest twitter moments was when I made the comment that Gordon Lightoot's 1980s music is far too overlooked and Terry McBride, the founder of Nettwerk Records (and discoverer of Sarah McLauchlan) gave my comment a like.

I recommend his 1980s songs "Anything for Love" "Blackberry Wine" and especially "Stay Loose." The musical arrangements on Anything for Love and Stay Loose are somewhat cheesy (they were produced by David Foster) but Stay Loose is wonderful "To be insane beyond belief/is sometimes the best relief."

[muon2]

It saddened me to hear of his death. I enjoyed listening to him on the radio growing up in the 1970's. I memorized all the words to the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, especially as the wreck was heavily covered in MN where I lived at the time. As a dungeon master In the 1980's I designed an intricate castle and dungeon adventure around the lyrics to If You Could Read My Mind. More recently I got to sing an a cappella arrangement of Song for a Winter's Night. He was arguably Canada's greatest folk musician, and he will be missed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bz3hbfJySA