Long before most music fans knew the name Gordon Lightfoot, they knew his music thanks to tunes like “For Lovin’ Me.” A bitter song of self-loathing directed at a former lover (“I ain’t ...

In honor of six decades of music, here are 10 of Gordon Lightfoot’s finest moments. [Ed. note: This list originally published in 2017.] “Dream Street Rose” ...

Gordon Lightfoot, “Your Love’s Return (Song for Stephen Foster)” (1970) An achingly gorgeous and arching melody line finds Lightfoot’s vocals raised higher by one octave in his quest to ...

Gordon Lightfoot: 10 Essential Songs by the Canadian Folk Icon. Angie Martoccio, Simon Vozick-Levinson, Andy Greene, Jon Dolan, Brenna Ehrlich and Kory Grow. Tue, May 2, 2023 at 1:55 AM UTC.

The Canadian singer-songwriter, who died on Monday at 84, brought his rueful baritone to memorable, melancholy material. By Rob Tannenbaum Bob Dylan once named Gordon Lightfoot one of his favorite ...

Gordon Lightfoot has been making music for a long time, and he's still at it five decades later. NPR's Scott Simon talks to him about his 50 Years on the Carefree Highway tour.

Gordon Lightfoot, the Canadian singer-songwriter whose graceful and literate songwriting made him one of the most respected folk-rooted musicians to emerge in the 1960s, died on Monday in a ...

Singer songwriter Gordon Lightfoot performs during Tin Pan South festival week at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tenn., on Tuesday, April 3, 2001.

R.I.P. Gordon Lightfoot, folk music legend Best known for his songs "Carefree Highway" and "The Wreck Of Edmund Fitzgerald," Gordon Lightfoot was 84 ...

Michiganders remembered Gordon Lightfoot, a Canadian folk singer who died Monday at 84 and who told stories through song, one of the best known being "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," an ...

Gordon Lightfoot in performance in London in 1973. When he moved beyond folk music and began writing ballads aimed at a broader audience in the 1970s, he scored one hit after another.

TORONTO — Gordon Lightfoot, Canada’s legendary folk singer-songwriter known for “If You Could Read My Mind” and “Sundown” and for songs that told tales of Canadian identity, died on ...