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Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian Folk Singer-Songwriter, Dies at 84
By Chris Morris

[Variety] Singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, the Canadian folk music laureate who crossed over to major pop fame in the U.S. during the ‘70s, died Monday evening at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto. He was 84 years old.

Lightfoot’s death was confirmed by his longtime agent, Victoria Lord.

Lightfoot rose to prominence in the mid-‘60s, penning such folk standards as “Early Morning Rain” (a major hit for the Canadian folk duo Ian and Sylvia Tyson), “For Loving Me” and “Ribbon of Darkness,” as well as the ambitious “Canadian Railroad Trilogy,” a sort of Northern equivalent to Mickey Newbury’s “American Trilogy.”

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Posted by: badanov 2023-05-02
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