Realizing that the specific is the key to the universal, his compositions were soon being covered by Ian and Sylvia, Elvis Presley, Grateful Dead, Johnny Cash, Judy Collins, and countless others.
I nspired by the likes of Bob Dylan - a mutual admirer who once professed to wish Lightfoot's songs "would last forever" - Gordon began imbuing his songs with a more personal point of view. All of those influences found their way into his work. He'd written rock-and-roll songs before studying composition and orchestration, and immersed himself in country and western sounds before rising to international fame in the folk idiom. By his teenaged years, he'd already mastered multiple instruments including guitar, piano, and drums. The Ontario native was a Canadian national treasure but his music belonged to the world part of the secret to his success was his richly diverse musical background. His warm, burnished baritone was like that of an old friend, reassuring and wise. Lightfoot's songs pierced the heart, springing from the folk tradition but with one foot in the pop realm as they pondered love, loneliness, nature, and history. We mourn the loss of troubadour Gordon Lightfoot (1938-2023).
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