Columns Remembering Gordon Lightfoot With 8 Essential Tracks These are the songs that established Lightfoot as a force in the United States and his native Canada—the songs that capture his essence.

These essential Gordon Lightfoot songs are some of his best work, and any fan worth their salt should hear them at least once.

So often it’s a girl — in this case, one named Beth, who Eric Elison was sweet on in high school and introduced him to Gordon ...

Gordon Lightfoot couldn't help but grin when the first returns for his Warner Bros.-Reprise "Sundown" album came in. Gordon Lightfoot in 1974. The title song and "Carefree Highway" from the album ...

I know Lightfoot’s first two albums like I knew my parents’ lullabies, writes Julie Wittes Schlack. They inspired me, soothed me, ushered me into dreams, both sleeping and awake.

Gordon Lightfoot has written some of most the enduring folk and pop songs around. He's written so many, he sometimes worries that he's accidentally taken pieces of other writers' work. "Kris ...

The wondrous, dreamlike, 84-year life of Canadian music legend Gordon Lightfoot came to an end last week in Toronto. Lightfoot grew up playing piano and guitar (which he had taught himself to play ...

Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson made an increasingly rare appearance onstage together Thursday as the Rush duo covered Gordon Lightfoot’s “The Way I Feel” at a Toronto tribute concert for the ...

Gordon Lightfoot, the Canadian singer-songwriter whose enduring folk hits included "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" and "Sundown," died Monday, his spokesperson told CNN. He was 84.