Biography

In the '60s and '70s, Canadian songsmith Gordon Lightfoot achieved the perfect marriage of folk and pop. His rich baritone was mellifluous enough to carry the elegantly catchy melodies of songs that possessed considerable substance beneath their undeniable pop hooks. He began at the more mainstream end of the folk camp, but by the '70s, he transcended the genre and became a popular figure with both commercial appeal and aesthetic value. Bob Dylan himself has expressed an abiding interest in Lightfoot's output.

Top Tracks

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• Affair On 8th Avenue

• Alberta Bound

• Approaching Lavender

• Baby Step Back

• Bitter Green

• Black Day In July

• Blackberry Wine

• Boss Man

• Canadian Railroad Trilogy

• Carefree Highway

• Christian Island (georgian Bay)

• Circle Of Steel

• Cobwebs & Dust

• Cold On The Shoulder

• Cotton Jenny

• Couchiching

• Daylight Katy

• Did She Mention My Name

• Early Morning Rain

• Flyin' Blind

• Ghosts Of Cape Horn

• Gotta Get Away

• Hangdog Hotel Room

• If You Could Read My Mind

• I'm Not Sayin'

• Knotty Pine

• Leaves Of Grass

• Long River

• Long Way Back Home

• Looking At The Rain

• Medley: I'm Not Sayin'/ribbon Of Darkness

• Miguel

• Minstrel Of The Dawn

• Much To My Surprise

• Old Dan's Records

• On Yonge Street

• Pussywillows, Cat-tails

• Rainy Day People

• Rich Man's Spiritual

• Rosana

• Rosanna

• Same Old Loverman

• Sea Of Tranquility

• Shellfish

• Song For A Winter's Night

• Sundown

• That Same Old Obsession

• The Auctioneer

• The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

• The House You Live In

• The Last Time I Saw Her

• The Mountains And Maryann

• The Way I Feel

• The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald

• Walls

• Wherefor And Why

• Whispers Of The North

Discography

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• Harmony

  Linus Canada

  2004

• A Painter Passing Through

  Reprise

  1998

• Waiting for You

  Wounded Bird Records

  1993

• East of Midnight

  Warner Bros.

  1986

• Salute

  Wounded Bird Records

  1983

• Shadows

  Wounded Bird Records

  1982

• Dream Street Rose

  Wounded Bird Records

  1980

• Endless Wire

  Wounded Bird Records

  1978

• Summertime Dream

  Wounded Bird Records

  1976

• Cold on the Shoulder

  Wounded Bird Records

  1975

• Sundown

  Reprise

  1974

• Don Quixote

  Wounded Bird Records

  1972

• Old Dan's Records

  Wounded Bird Records

  1972

• Summer Side of Life

  Wounded Bird Records

  1971

• If You Could Read My Mind

  Reprise

  1970

• Sit Down Young Stranger

  Wounded Bird Records

  1970

• Sunday Concert

  CEMA Special Markets / EMI-Capitol Special Markets

  1969

• Back Here on Earth

  EMI Music Distribution

  1968

• Did She Mention My Name?

  EMI Music Distribution

  1968

• The Way I Feel

  Beat Goes On

  1967

• Lightfoot!

  EMI Music Distribution

  1966