'Minstrel' (A Gordon Lightfoot Tribute)

'Minstrel' (A Gordon Lightfoot Tribute)

May 20, 2023
02:07:53
Gordon lightfoot, Canada’s legendary minstrel of song left this mortal coil on Monday, May 1, 2023 at 730 p.m. at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto. He died of natural causes. He was 84 years old. He is credited with helping to define the folk-pop sound of the 1960s and 1970s. He has been referred to as Canada's greatest songwriter and his songs have been recorded by some of the world's most renowned musical artists. His biographer Nicholas Jennings wrote, "His name is synonymous with timeless songs about trains and shipwrecks, rivers and highways, lovers and loneliness."
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