Rip to a great Canadian, great storyteller
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OT: RIP Gordon Lightfoot
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Gordon Lightfoot In Concert Postponed To June 14 At Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall
Due to illness and Doctor's orders, Gordon Lightfoot originally scheduled for Monday, March 13 has been postponed to Wednesday, June 14 at 7:30PM.
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Ive heard Sundown is about Cathy Smith - a groupie/drug dealer. Lightfoot dated her in the early 70s, think she was a dealer for the Stones and later went on to kill John Belushi.
I can see her lying back in her satin dress
In a room where you do what you don't confess
Sundown, you better take care
If I find you been creeping 'round my back stairs
Sundown, you better take care
If I find you been creeping 'round my back stairs
I can see her lying back in her satin dress
In a room where you do what you don't confess
Sundown, you better take care
If I find you been creeping 'round my back stairs
Sundown, you better take care
If I find you been creeping 'round my back stairs
Article from a couple of years ago. Seems like she really got around.
Cathy Smith Dies: ‘Sundown’ Muse Who Injected John Belushi With Fatal Drug Dose Was 73
Cathy Smith, the onetime girlfriend of singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot who might be best remembered for inspiring the hit song “Sundown” had she not met up with John Belushi at the C…
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When you all get a chance...
...in his honor. It's a good beer. Very good.
A chocolatey-like Guinness. Sweet but tasty.
...in his honor. It's a good beer. Very good.
A chocolatey-like Guinness. Sweet but tasty.
I saw him at the Garden State Arts Center on 7-7-77.
Hopefully,he's now on a Carefree Highway.
Hopefully,he's now on a Carefree Highway.
It's always interesting to read an international perspective. Here's an article from the BBC:
Singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot dies aged 84
What's notable is that they barely make any mention of the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, and when they do it's at the end of the article.
Singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot dies aged 84
What's notable is that they barely make any mention of the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, and when they do it's at the end of the article.
Bob Dylan has always referred to Gordon Lightfoot as his mentor.
It's really all you need to know.
Fair winds and following seas, Gordo. You were genuinely brilliant.
It's really all you need to know.
Fair winds and following seas, Gordo. You were genuinely brilliant.
Arizona State Route 74 (SR 74), locally known as the Carefree Highway, is a state highway in central Arizonathat stretches east to west from its junction with U.S. Route 60 (US 60) just south of Wickenburg to its junction with Interstate 17 (I-17) in North Phoenix.
The Carefree Highway is the inspiration for a 1974 Gordon Lightfoot song of the same name.[2] Lightfoot wrote it after travelling from Flagstaff, Arizona on Interstate 17 to Phoenix.
One of my favorites from him.
When the song came out, I assumed "Edmund Fitzgerald" was about a 19th century ship. Not sure why I did. Years later I discovered that it sank in 1975. Being that the song was released in '76 it was still a current event when he wrote it.
With a load of iron ore 26,000 tons more
Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty
Definitely not 19th c. 😁
Next you're going to tell me The Irish Rover wasn't a real ship that set sail in 1806 with 2 million barrels of stone...
