gordon lightfoot Archive
07 Aug 2020
Why Not Give it a Try: Gordon Lightfoot Goes ‘Solo’ (Part 3 of 3)
Continued from Part Two … Things took off from there. His long string of hits would include many highlights, including “Sundown” and “Carefree Highway,” both from 1974’s Sundown LP, and […]
06 Aug 2020
Why Not Give it a Try: Gordon Lightfoot Goes ‘Solo’ (Part 2 of 3)
Continued from Part One … And he had another fleeting concern. All those years had gone by, and then he returns with a simple, unadorned album? “I didn’t want people […]
05 Aug 2020
Why Not Give it a Try: Gordon Lightfoot Goes ‘Solo’ (Part 1 of 3)
When Gordon Lightfoot soared to the top of the U.S. singles charts with 1970’s “If You Could Read My Mind,” most listeners considered him a new artist. But the Ontario-born […]
15 Feb 2020
30 Days Out: February 2020 #2: Gordon Lightfoot, Marley Carroll, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Pinkest Floyd
Lots of great live music coming to Asheville, N.C. in the next 30 days. Below is merely a sampling from among the best: two local acts, two nationally touring artists. […]
21 Jun 2019
Gordon Lightfoot: 80 Years Strong
In some ways a reaction to the hard rock and psychedelic excesses of late 1960s pop music, the early 1970s ushered in the era of the singer-songwriter. Led by a […]