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The Mariner's Church of Detroit rang their bell 30 times in memory of Gordon Lightfoot — once for every man lost in the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, and once for Lightfoot.

Gordon Lightfoot’s 10 Best Songs: Critic’s Picks In honor of six decades of music, here are 10 of Gordon Lightfoot's finest moments. By Chuck Dauphin 05/1/2023 Share this article on Facebook Share this article on Twitter Share this article on Flipboard Share this article on Pinit + additional share options added Gordon Lightfoot Gordon Lightfoot Photo courtesy Gordon Lightfoot There are few careers in popular music more versatile than that of Gordon Lightfoot. The native Canadian has enjoyed success in the worlds of pop, adult contemporary, folk and country — with fans of all ages enchanted by the singer’s unforgettable...

The Big Banking, Big Business, Big Government forces are trying to manage this world they see themselves as the "Moderate" forces of "Stability"... When Stevie Wonder made that song back in the 1970's "Sir Duke" about those jazzy Big Band Era music stars I was a few notes short... I was a Religious Drunk when I was a teenager by that I mean my ego had me going with the notion that my "sinners prayer" cleaned me up while every one else was dirty... "Love Thy Neighbor" That means wanting what's best for someone else not wanting to use their...

Rick Beato discusses the life and music of Gordon Lightfoot. This is a recorded livestream from earlier in the day.

Legendary Canadian folk singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot has died at age 84. Victoria Lord, a representative for the family, says the musician behind classic Canadian ballads "Early Morning Rain" and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" died at a Toronto hospital on Monday evening. His cause of death was not immediately available. The Orillia, Ont., native rose to fame in the early 1960s after a move to Toronto opened doors in the thriving Yorkville music scene, and hooked him up with fellow folkies Ian and Sylvia Tyson. They became great admirers of his work and covered two of his tracks. His...

When I was 24 (1982) I went to see Gordon at the Opera House in San Francisco. It was the middle of a recession and the house was mostly empty... probably around 300 people. I had bought a nosebleed seat way up in the rafters.... Gordon when he came on looked around and said "Wow, things are tough all over." He then asked the people in the lower seats if they minded if he invited the people in the 'cheap seats' to come down and join them.. no one objected so I went down and grabbed a good seat. Gordon...

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Cathy Smith, the onetime girlfriend of singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot who might have been best remembered for inspiring the hit song “Sundown” had she not met up with John Belushi at the Chateau Marmont on March 5, 1982, died Aug. 18 at the age of 73. Her death was reported by Canada’s The Globe and Mail. The longtime resident of Maple Ridge, British Columbia, had been on oxygen and in failing health the past few years, the newspaper said. Smith, who had been a back-up singer (and occasional drug supplier) to the Canadian rockers who would later become The Band (she...

Great music from Gordon Lightfoot about the "Rainy Day People" who help us instead of hurting us. On Canada's CTV Lloyd Robertson had a conversation with Gordon Lightfoot broadcast in December 2017.... Where do we go after impeachment? In 1998 Bill Clinton opted for military action in Kosovo and Serbia siding with its Muslim population against the Serbs. What will the Trump post-impeachment policy be?.... And back here in the USA Kelli Stewart, John Lamb and other activists taking a stand for the rights of parents in the Kylee Dixon Case in Oregon..... The Middle Finger In The Middle East,...

Each year, those of us who live surrounded by the Great Lakes commemorate the sinking of the The SS Edmund Fitzgerald in a hellacious Lake Superior storm on November 10, 1975 resulting in the loss of the entire crew of 29. The early wicked cold bearing down on the Great Lakes this year is very much like it was that fateful November 44 years ago. Dewey from Detroit began our annual commemoration night back in 2009, a bleak period in America so we didn’t find the somewhat maudlin memorializing of another tragedy so strange; it was more like singing the...

Driving north on Interstate 75 across the Mackinac Bridge into Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

If you could read his mind, what a tale his thoughts could tell. So claimed Gordon Lightfoot in his 1970 breakout hit, the song that would launch his career as one of the most consistently satisfying singer-songwriters of the decade and would subsequently be recorded by some 300 other artists. There was a lot of musical confession in those days, with James Taylor, Jackson Browne, Joni Mitchell and so many others wearing their hearts on their lyric sleeves. Yet Lightfoot generally kept his mind to himself. A reserved Canadian, he played his emotional cards comparatively close to his vest, rarely...

"We are holding our own.-- Last transmission by Captain Ernest McSorley of the S.S. Edmund FitzgeraldForty-one years ago tonight came the worst tragedy in the history of the Great Lakes. The largest ship plying its waters, the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald, sank in a horrific November storm. On her ride to the bottom she took all 29 of her crew with her. The following year, Gordon Lightfoot released his haunting ballad "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald".In memory of the twenty-nine men of the Great Lakes's most legendary vessel, and in memory of all who have taken to the waters to...

Hope you enjoy. ”If You Could Read My Mind”

40 years ago, a few hours after sunset... The captain wired in he had water comin' in and the good ship and crew was in peril. And later that night when 'is lights went outta sight came the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

At age 75, the legendary songwriter and beloved recording artist Gordon Lightfoot is still working hard and enjoying it more than ever. The creator of such standards as If You Could Read My Mind, Early Morning Rain, Carefree Highway and Sundown still performs upwards of eighty concerts a year in North America. "We love the work" is the joyful mantra his associates hear him say all the time. Even after waking up from a six-week coma following a burst abdominal artery in 2002, Gordon worked from his hospital bed and polished the final tracks for his twentieth album. It would...

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The green camouflage wristband might not be noticeable to the audience. But if you know what you are looking for you would not miss it on Lightfoot's right wrist. Let's just say this is the famous entertainer's way of having every Canadian soldier in Afghanistan up on that stage with him. It's a moving gesture by the music icon and proud Canadian as he gets ready to perform again at Massey Hall tonight and tomorrow night -- the end of a four-show run that started Thursday. "One of the soldiers gave it to me at the Red Rally and I...