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April showers bring May GOLD 💐 What's your favorite Gord tune?

We lost him today, but we will all always have his wonderful music. thank you Gordon

RIP Gordon Lightfoot, thank you for your wonderful music. May you forever rest in peace, you shall never be forgotten.

I'm 62. For 50 years, Gordon Lightfoot has been my favorite songwriter and story teller. He left us a library that will always enrich us.

We buried my Dad yesterday. I grew up listening to Gordon Lightfoot as my Dad had his original records. These songs teleport me back to my youth sitting with my Dad in the mountains of Colorado watching a fire, playing cards, or being present as the snow fell. Miss him, but these songs will always remind me of him.

I have to be careful where and when I listen to Gordon Lightfoot! Anyone of his songs can burst me into spontaneous tears! Rarely tears of sadness .... rather tears of deep Beauty.... Beauty too deep to hold without crying .... Thank-you Gordon. Your life is what it looks like to live a spiritual/creative life.....doing what you were born to do. You are an inspiration..... I see that it is not an easy path to live but, one that can bring such Beauty into the world.

Many years ago when I was just a little boy and barely up off the floor Gords truck, I think it was, broke down in front our farm on the hwy 11 late at night. Gordon came in to use the phone but being so late he ended up staying for several hrs playing music with my mom and dad. My dad played the fiddle and my mom sang, they had a band so many years ago that played in a few local spots in the area.. I sat and listened to Gordon all night and has been one of my all time favorites ever since.
Rest in peace Gordon.

His songs take me back when life was less stressful and I felt my values were shared by most other people.

RIP Gordon Lightfoot (November 17, 1938 – May 1, 2023), aged 84
You will be remembered as a legend.

Gordon Lightfoot is a national treasure 🇨🇦

Found myself with no choice but to keep listening this morning. The sounds of my childhood...

He was one of those people you think will always be around. Farewell to an incredibly talented yet humble man ❤

Can anyone not love Gordon Lightfoot songs? He is a legacy.

The 70's was the era for the singer-songwriters. Kudos to Gordon and the all poetic company of that era. Oh how it's desperately missed.

I was 16 in 1970, I first heard his hauntingly beautiful voice singing, " If You Could Read My Mind" I was never the same.
I fell in love.💕

Gordon Lightfoot was, arguably, the finest singer/songwriter to ever grace a stage. For some of you, that might be a bold statement but I have rich musical evidence to work with. His musical legacy is found in his sweet melodic love songs, his plaintive ballads and towering anthems, Lightfoot was recognized by his peers as a force of elegant melody and word. He was a rogue storyteller in the cloak of a modern day minstrel. Few, if any, had his range which could go from the intimacy of a song like 'Beautiful' to his great anthem to the mariner 'Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald' or find the scope that he demonstrated with the misty 'Bitter Green' versus the universal and powerfully relevant 'Black Day in July'. There's the story of a broken man's plaintive plea for home all ex-pats feel in 'Early Morning Rain'. And in the epic tale 'Canadian Railroad Trilogy' he crystalized the Canadian Dream. Most significantly and crucial, he taught us the way to sing about our nation something that was sorely lacking in the character of a citizenry intimidated by its southern neighbours. And that was his greatest gift to all born in this vast wild country we call Canada. That alone would have been enough for one man.
May you Rest In Peace Gordon, forever playing a six string.

Such heartbreaking news. Rest in peace kind Sir. Your music and legacy will live on forever. A deep thinker, a poet, a masterful storyteller, a phenomenal singer that touched your soul, and a warm beacon of shining light in a rough world. Thank you. 🥀🕊💔😢🙏

As a songwriter I find it amazing that Gordon can get away with being so honest about his experience as a young man in the 1960s and 1970s. I think most writers are inclined to write safe, happy stories, but Gord is so honest. Really he is often just painting pictures of the human experience, even very sad ones, just to get them out.

Gord is fully aware of his brutal honesty in his songs, that why they often have this peculiar mix of self-loathing and faith in his own instincts.

Example, in "For lovin' me," we hear lyrics about him asserting "All you'll get for loving me is losing everything you had." He even seems to note cruelly, "There you go crying again-" but at the end of that phrase he has this optimistic and self-understanding line, "but then one day when your poor heart is on the mend, I just might pass this way again." As in, you can only Love me at a distance, not fully because i'm afraid to be vulnerable enough to Love that deeply. I'm not sure if he's conscious or not of that emotional malady... Sounds like this song was his way of grasping it, objectifying it so he could see it. Any young man gets where that song is at.

It so strangely healing to hear someone going through what you are, and subtly pointing at the way out, but also that he himself struggles to go there, to love that deeply, because he has "1000 more women to ge tthrough..." which he seems to be using to defend himself against the cathartic realization he can't admit.

Such a strange self-awareness from the position of one struggling. Many of his songs have this raw honesty, its like listening to a larvae struggle to come out of a coccoon, and documenting each and every painful stab very intimately and relatably.

Have always loved his music, and was loved by my late husband, who passed 32 years ago, and the memories are so strong when I hear these beautiful songs xxx Thanks for a lifetime of memories

I just heard of Gord’s passing 💔🇨🇦 words cannot express my feelings for this great Canadian icon who inspired me to be a musician and love folk music…each song brings me back to a simple time when love was new and there’s always a story to tell…he was the master storyteller ❤RIP Mr Lightfoot