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Post by jdv on May 2, 2023 3:09:05 GMT -5
Dang shame:
"Gordon Lightfoot, Canada’s legendary folk singer-songwriter known for “If You Could Read My Mind” and “Sundown” and for songs that told tales of Canadian identity, died on Monday. He was 84.
Representative Victoria Lord said the musician died at a Toronto hospital. His cause of death was not immediately available.
Considered one of the most renowned voices to emerge from Toronto’s Yorkville folk club scene in the 1960s, Lightfoot went on to record 20 studio albums and pen hundreds of songs, including “Carefree Highway,” “Early Morning Rain” and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.”
In the 1970s, Lightfoot garnered five Grammy nominations, three platinum records and nine gold records for albums and singles. In the more than 60 years since he launched his career, he performed in well over 1,500 concerts and recorded 500 songs." ------------------------------
And the lonesome balladeer is no more. Rest in Peace Gord:
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Post by Warpig on May 2, 2023 12:13:22 GMT -5
AWWWW!!!!
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Post by jdv on May 2, 2023 12:18:56 GMT -5
"If you could read my mind love, what a tale my thoughts would tell...."
"Picking up the pieces of my dream shattered sleep, wondering if I'll ever see the day...."
Truly a bard.
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Post by Warpig on May 2, 2023 12:42:37 GMT -5
"The wind in wires made a tattle-tale sound, and a wave broke over the railing.... ....and every man knew, as the Captain did too, 'twas the witch of November come stealin'...."
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