Gordon Lightfoot...RIP
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His music helped knit us together as Canadians.
I don't think that he did many protest songs, but this one got banned in Detroit.
When you are the inspiration and idol of Bob Dylan…
He defined folk music in the 60’s. Not just in Canada but worldwide.
He defined folk music in the 60’s. Not just in Canada but worldwide.
It was never so much the song than it was the true story of the sinking of the ship.
always loved his music and never saw hi in concert until a few years ago at Rama was really looking forward to it got there sat down the concert started and I could not recognize the voice. it was old sounding not what I wanted to hear but still I saw him .but we all age .thank you mr Lightfoot for your music rest in peace
"Does any one know where the love of God goes
When the waves turn the minutes to hours? "
From the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
That line really conjures up the imagery of what it would have been like to die on Lake Superior when the lake dragged your ship to the bottom.
When the waves turn the minutes to hours? "
From the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
That line really conjures up the imagery of what it would have been like to die on Lake Superior when the lake dragged your ship to the bottom.
Gordon will meet the 29 sailors from the Edmond Fitzgerald in heaven and they are going to have a hell of a concert.
Let’s not forget Canadian Railroad Trilogy. This one touches my heart, deeply, as it best describes a most important part of my country’s history.
An American music site on YT listed the artists Bob Dylan admired most, Gordon Lightfoot was left of the list...typical.
Rick Beato is different, he lives and works out of Stone Mountain Georgia, he was born and raised in Rochester NY. He was exposed to the Toronto music scene. This memorial is just as good as the one he did for Neil Peart.
I was visiting with my 92yo mom yesterday.
She is now quite deaf, so I take a few news papers with me so we can look at photos in them as a way to be sure what subject we are both talking about.
She sees the photo of GL and that he had died.
Then, despite no short term memory, tells me of when she used to baby sit him from time to time when he was growing up in Orillia.
And that he used to play his guitar at church picnics and the like as a young teen before he moved to pursue gigs in Rosedale, as she put it.
Heard on the drive home after that indeed his funeral was to be at my home town church in Orillia.
Wow. New insight in on the guy from the most unlikely source.
She is now quite deaf, so I take a few news papers with me so we can look at photos in them as a way to be sure what subject we are both talking about.
She sees the photo of GL and that he had died.
Then, despite no short term memory, tells me of when she used to baby sit him from time to time when he was growing up in Orillia.
And that he used to play his guitar at church picnics and the like as a young teen before he moved to pursue gigs in Rosedale, as she put it.
Heard on the drive home after that indeed his funeral was to be at my home town church in Orillia.
Wow. New insight in on the guy from the most unlikely source.
I used to pass through Orillia on my way to Coboconk.
For a small picturesque town it has a large Canadian Cultural footprint. Apart from Gordon Lightfoot, Stephen Leacock and Glenn Gould spent their summers there.
On the website of St. Paul's United Church there is a picture of Gordon in a choir robe. He looks to be about 10 or 12 years old.
