Phillips: Music is just as important as barbecue on Monday
Phillips: Music is just as important as barbecue on MondayChattanooga Times Free PressFirst of all, it's not so much Canada that will serve as an entry point into this week's discussion as it is "Canadian Railroad Trilogy," a song about Canadian history written by Gordon Lightfoot, a Canadian. While many will mistake Monday as an excuse ...
NAC Presents Gordon Lightfoot on June 15 & 16 in Southam Hall
NAC Presents Gordon Lightfoot on June 15 & 16 in Southam HallOttawa Start (press release)There are few songs that embody this country more than Gordon Lightfoot's Canadian Railroad Trilogy, written in honour of Canada's centennial. In 1969, Lightfoot performed the Canadian Railroad Trilogy at the opening of the National Arts Centre in ...and more »
Gordon Lightfoot at the Palace Theatre, 5/19/12
Gordon Lightfoot at the Palace Theatre, 5/19/12Albany Times Union (blog)By GREG HAYMES ALBANY – Standing in the spotlight at the Palace Theatre on Saturday night, Canadian troubadour Gordon Lightfoot spun his magnificent musical tales of shipwrecks and trains and love won and lost. But his most poignant performance of the ...
Sneak Peeks: Gordon Lightfoot, the Spin Doctors and 'Black Tie' reading light ...
Sneak Peeks: Gordon Lightfoot, the Spin Doctors and 'Black Tie' reading light ...The SaratogianSaturday night, Gordon Lightfoot, who some call the originator of folk-pop, brings 50 years of musical genius to the Palace Theatre in Albany. If back in the 1970s you were asked to predict whose music would survive for more than 40 years, you couldn't ...
Reading Gordon Lightfoot's mind
Reading Gordon Lightfoot's mindMassLive.comBy George Lenker Although it's not a raging controversy among the general populace, there has been a decades-old debate about the origins of Gordon Lightfoot's well-known song, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald." Many folk music fans have long noted ...