Gordon Lightfoot

A Painter Passing Through

Lightfoot the Songwriter

Review Score:

(8/10)
He was a singer-songwriter but age tells in his voice. The singer is fading, but, the songwriter just gets better with age. For those who want a sense of place, a sense of life as it is meant to be lived, for music to transport us not to a field of rage or even of dreams, but to a field in which we wandered as children, or wander now as adults one can do no better than Lightfoot. Sometimes I just pick up the album and look at the song listings and my eyes goes to "On Yonge Street." A real place sung about by a real person. There are times when we need that, and there are times when we all need a little Gordon Lightfoot.

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