![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() No matter who you were, or where you were from, Gordon Lightfoot told your story. It’s their loss if they don’t know the gold they’re missing in a catalog rendered timeless and awesome through tales of the land and the people upon it, and how those people love, and live, and eventually, and tragically, die. But even the shit kickers and the honky-tonkers out there will conclude that Gordon Lightfoot was undeniably essential, at least the ones who know their stuff, are worth their salt, and honest. He was only country in spurts, or by accident. Gordon Lightfoot was a Canadian, not a Statesman. ![]() But damn well make sure you include Gordon Lightfoot within that small and exclusive company. Start and end that list with whomever you wish. In a world teeming with interpreters, reenactors, imitators, and outright frauds, only a few select songsmiths truly touched music in foundational manners integral to audio expression, and irrespective of genre. It would only take a small penthouse to accommodate the amount of music artists who if you disappeared their legacies in their entirety, it would irreparable and forever change the very fabric of music as we know it today. ![]()
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