First Time Hearing Gordon Lightfoot - Sundown

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  @lawrencedavis9246 · 1 year ago (edited) · pinned

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• PA

  @patrickwentz8413 · 1 year ago

  Bob Dylan, when asked about Gordon Lightfoot&apos;s voice by a music critic, said, &quot;The only thing wrong with Gordon Lightfoot&apos;s voice is when he stops singing.&quot; High praise indeed.

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• LA

  @lawrencedavis9246 · 1 year ago (edited)

  Thanks for this. His song <i>The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald</i> tends to overshadow all of his other works, so hearing one of his other releases is a nice memory and a treat.

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• BR

  @bryanholmen6901 · 1 year ago

  After he died, Bob Dylan’s response was spot on. “Gordon left us without having written a bad song.” &nbsp;Paraphrasing somewhat, but accurate and a beautiful tribute.

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• RI

  @richie2082 · 1 year ago

  &quot;If you could read my mind&quot; &nbsp;is a really pretty song of his, &nbsp;I loved it as a child growing up in Southern California listening to the car AM radio.

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• PO

  @portaltwo · 1 year ago

  Yes, The &quot;Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald&quot; is the more popular story-song, but then there&apos;s &quot;Canadian Railroad Trilogy&quot;. Epic. 🍁

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• DA

  @DavidKube-e7b · 1 year ago

  He has a HUGE library of songs. ALL of them great.

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• MA

  @MatthewRichardson-zj3yn · 6 months ago

  I believe this was written about the woman who was with John Belushi when he died.

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  @MoncurElectric · 1 year ago

  Several years ago I was in a Toronto music shop when the bell wrang signalling someone entering.<br>Then I heard THAT voice behind me.<br>&quot;Good morning!&quot;<br>It was Gordon buying guitar strings.<br>He seemed like ten feet tall, I will never forget it.

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• ST

  @stoicmonk01 · 1 year ago

  gordon had one hell of a voice. i&apos;m glad that we still get to hear it.

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  @that_old_bob · 1 year ago

  In 1967 the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation commissioned Gordon to write a song celebrating Canada&apos;s Centennial. His &quot;Canadian Railroad Trilogy&quot; joyfully commemorates the building of the Canadian Pacific Railroad, Canada&apos;s transcontinental railroad, yet is also a poignant tribute to the &apos;navvies,&apos; the low-paid mostly immigrant workmen who built the road by hand in the 1880s.

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• SC

  @scottferguson2092 · 1 year ago

  Thanks Diane! A couple of other Gordon Lightfoot songs you may like are “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” about a ship sinking (true story) and “If You Could Read My Mind” a heartbreaking song about his marriage failing. Thanks again for showing Canada a bit of love!

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