RIP Gordon Lightfoot

[triplexxx]

Canadian folk/folk-pop/country singer/songwriter Gordon Lightfoot has passed to heaven at 84. He had a very smooth, soothing singing voice, had many monderful chart-topping hits throughout the 1960s and 1970s such as "If You Could Read My Mind", "Sundown", Carefree Highway", "Rainy Day People", & "The Wreck of Edmund Fitzgerald". Gordon had a star on the Canada Walk of Fame, as well as an inductee into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame & Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame, Order of Canada, Order of Ontario, many Juno awards, and others. Documentary of him in 2019. Was one of the most memorable country singers for the past several generations. Keep enjoying playing in heaven, Gordon.

[MikeandRaph87]

My father saw him in concert on his college campus aljust before Lightfoot took off in the early 1970s' He had a soft almost storytelling voice like in Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and If You Could Read My Mind. He also conquered a stroke that he suffered mid-cincert. I admire him for that alone.

[oldmanwinters]

Anytime I hear “The Wreck of Edmund Fitzgerald” play on radio, I always listen all the way through. One of my fave melancholy songs, especially for rainy days in November.