OT RIP Gordon Lightfoot

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    One of Canada's great folk singer songwriters he was Bob Dylan's favorite ...If You Could Read My Mind Love is a masterpiece and was Dylan's favorite song. Gordon played beautiful fingerstyle guitar often on his 12 string...I never got to see him perform but have his CD double boxed set which I love. RIP to a real legendary musician. 84 was a damned good run for anybody but especially for a guy who struggled with alcohol all his life. What a voice!
     
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    RIP



    As good today as I imagine it was in '74. A legend.
     
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    RIP Gordon Lightfoot

    The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
     
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    RIP
     
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    I still have that LP, and still play it fairly often...Gordon was not just a great singer/songwriter, but an incredible story teller as well.

    In my world, he will be greatly missed.
     
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    Had to come back and post this...just came back from my weight room from doing my weekday workout. Turned on my music app with my saved playlist....and very first song that came on;

    ...Sundown.


    Was kinda thinking Rod Serling might suddenly appear.
     
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    The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
    Of the big lake they called Gitche Gumee
    The lake it is said, never gives up her dead
    When the skies of November turn gloomy
     
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    His voice and songs are still Classic!
     
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    Great song!
     
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    RIP Gordon!
     
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    If You Could Read My Mind is such a sad song. No fight, no betrayal, no big issue. Just recognition the feeling is gone and won't come back.
     
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    speeds $2.50 highball, $1.50 beer Staff Member Administrator GFX Team

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    Neil Young, Bonnie Raitt, Carly Simon, and Joni Mitchell are still alive, if anyone is checking.

    The recent passing of David Crosby, along with Leonard Cohen and Gordon Lightfoot, is bringing this musical era to a close.
     
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    68 at the Fillmore only time I saw him........
     
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    Keith Richards will NEVER DIE!
     
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    It would take a wooden stake through the heart to kill Keith.
     
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