Tribute to Gordon Lightfoot

Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr. CC OOnt (November 17, 1938 – May 1, 2023) was Ribbon of Dark=nera Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist who achieved international success in folk, folk-rock, and country music. He is credited with helping to define the folk-pop sound of the 1960s and 1970s.[1] He has been referred to as Canada's greatest songwriter[2] and was known internationally as a folk-rock legend.[3][4] Lightfoot's biographer Nicholas Jennings said, "His name is synonymous with timeless songs about trains and shipwrecks, rivers and highways, lovers and loneliness."[5]