Gordon Lightfoot

About

Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr. was a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist who achieved international success in folk, folk-rock, and country music. Credited with helping to define the folk-pop sound of the 1960s and 1970s, he has been referred to as Canada’s greatest songwriter, having several gold and multi-platinum albums and songs covered by some of the world’s most renowned musical artists. Lightfoot’s biographer Nicholas Jennings said, “His name is synonymous with timeless songs about trains and shipwrecks, rivers and highways, lovers and loneliness.”

Albums/Songs:

• Summer Side of Life
• Solo
• Fantastic
• Dream Street Rose
• East of Midnight
• Sundown
• Salute
• The Way I Feel
• Shadows
• If You Could Read My Mind / Sit Down Young Stranger
• Harmony
• Back Here on Earth
• Cold on the Shoulder
• A Painter Passing Through
• Don Quixote
• Did She Mention My Name?
• Lightfoot!
• Waiting for You
• Summertime Dream
• Old Dan’s Records
• The Very Best of Gordon Lightfoot
• Endless Wire
• Gord’s Gold
• Early Lightfoot
• The Best Of

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