Damn, I never even HEARD Cherokee Bend and my own uncle DISCOVERED Gord when he was playing a bar on Spadina Avenue here. Thanks to Uncle Al, Gord got his first record deal!
Al Grossman? He also managed Peter,Paul and Mary, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, The Band, Odetta, Ian and Sylvia.
He got around fer sure.
Spadina Ave...Toronto, eh!
Ya’kinda wonder how long Lightfoot woulda’ lasted without the alcoholism, drugs, cigarettes....he did say he would use alcohol to help him write. I think he stopped drinking after about 1985 or so. I believe he is at least co-equal with Bob Dylan as a writer. His voice was more “mellifluous” than Dylan in his heydey. Hear him do “Softly” on Johnny Cash show. Some of his less popular songs highlighting his ability to view different topics using different musical genres include ,Don Quixote, The Soul is the Rock, Redwood Hill, Ballad of Yarmouth Castle, Canadian Railroad Trilogy, Crossroads, Sit down, young Stranger, Face of a Thousand people...too many to list.
Freegards.