Gordon Lightfoot RIP

[Gil Bang 25920]

dead at 84

[Sam Lin 3551]

Man. RIP. Hell of a storyteller.

[NWBuck 8552]

Fella, it's been good to know ya'

[elguapo 4586]

RIP

[4th&Five 41514]

 

[Braff Zacklin 13553]

He's on that carefree highway to heaven.

 

Carefree highway
Let me slip away on you
Carefree highway
You've seen better days
The morning after blues
From my head down to my shoes
Carefree highway
Let me slip away, slip away on you

[Trey3216 15345]

Sometimes I think it’s a sin, when I feel like I’m winning when I’m losing again.   

[TwiceHorn 31438]

Oof.  I liked him as a kid becoming aware of music and then kind of decided he was a 70s cheeseball, then came to appreciate him again.

84 is a pretty good run, didn't realize he was that old.

RIP.

[Horndog 2228]

Truly great songwriter.

A drink for the living

A toast for the dead.

[Jackson P. Neighbors 136]

Damn. My dad was a USN man but had a lot of respect for civilian seafarers. He would play WOTEF as often as possible every Nov. 10.

His baritone is not heard much anymore and the storytelling is uniquely pure and tragic. Godspeed.

Edited May 2, 2023 by Jackson P. Neighbors

[G650 14242]

Goddamn. RIP to the realest motherfucker out there.

[squib 1120]

From an oft overlooked gem of his. 
 

If you find me feedin' daisies
Please turn my face up to the sky
And leave me be
Watchin' the moon roll by
Whatever I was
You know it was all because
I've been on the town
Washin' the bullshit down

 

[Parliament 14243]

His Megadearh covers were awesome.

[WhatTheBuck 28775]

RIP, eh.

He was like Jim Croce with a more luxurious voice and fewer hits. 

[DoobieWah 1435]

Canadia just became a lot less relevant. 
 

If you could read my mind, love -

what a tale my thoughts could tell…

[HiggyBaby 2529]

Oof.  I liked him as a kid becoming aware of music and then kind of decided he was a 70s cheeseball, then came to appreciate him again.
84 is a pretty good run, didn't realize he was that old.
RIP.

Sounds like me. I didn’t come to appreciate him until I got to UT in the early 90s. Edmund Fitzgerald was the hook. I stayed on because of Sundown, Carefree Highway, If You Could Read my Mind, etc. So much great music to chill too. RIP you richly baritoned Canuck.

[austingirl 2191]

I love Edmund Fitzgerald's voice

[austingirl 2191]

One of my favorites. Hard to pick a favorite song of his but this one's up there.

 

[faps 806]

WOTEF is an all-timer, my fav song to request at the strip club. RIP

[abuelo gringo 321]

Fell in love with his music with this song on the old Kirk Wilson KAZZ-FM show in the late '60s, early 70's.  So great, Edmund Fitzgerald, Canadian Railroad Trilogy, Sundown, too many great songs over the years. RIP Gord.

[Deej 76755]

 

[G650 14242]

Goddammit deej why you gotta fuck up a thread

[Mdhorn 5947]

SiriusXM NYC studios in 2014. (not my photo)

Edited May 3, 2023 by Mdhorn

[GhostOfTomJoad 9323]

Bob Dylan summed Gordo up pretty good when he said something like "when I hear a song by Lightfoot I wish it could go on forever."

[tbone_ 14110]

I can see you lying back in your satin dress, in the room where you do what you don’t confess…

Dude could turn a phrase

[GopherRock 1765]

Also, Split Rock Lighthouse is being lit tonight in his honor. 

[Post Oak 20208]

 

A Song For A Winters Night is one of my favorites and has been on our holiday playlist for years.

Look at these lyrics. 

The lamp is burnin' low upon my table top
The snow is softly falling
The air is still in the silence of my room
I hear your voice softly calling

If I could only have you near
To breathe a sigh or two
I would be happy just to hold the hands I love
On this winter night with you

The smoke is rising in the shadows overhead
My glass is almost empty
I read again between the lines upon each page
The words of love you sent me

If I could know within my heart
That you were lonely too
I would be happy just to hold the hands I love
On this winter night with you

The fire is dying
Now my lamp is growing dim
The shades of night are lifting
The morning light steals across my window pane
Where webs of snow are drifting

If I could only have you near
To breathe a sigh or two
I would be happy just to hold the hands I love
On this winter night with you
And to be once again with you

 

[Chopper 17230]

Life-long Lightfoot fan. But up until a few weeks ago I had no idea about Cathy Smith's (of injected-Belushi-with-a-speedball-that-stopped-his-heart fame) connection to Gordon, nor that she was the subject of Sundown. The videography about him (on either netflix or prime, I can't recall) was extremely fascinating.