Gordon Lightfoot couldn't help but grin when the first returns for his Warner Bros.-Reprise "Sundown" album came in. Gordon Lightfoot in 1974. The title song and "Carefree Highway" from the album were ...

As far as signature songs go, “Sundown” might not be the first that came to mind for singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot upon news of his death earlier this week (May 1) at age 84. “If You Could Read ...

Gordon Lightfoot wanted it to be one way, but it was the other way. That's the story of "Sundown," a song about curdled romantic obsession that turned out to be Lightfoot's only American #1 hit.

Singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, the Canadian folk music laureate who crossed over to major pop fame in the U.S. during the ‘70s, died of natural causes on Monday evening at Sunnybrook Hospital in ...

In the early 1970s, Gordon Lightfoot met a woman named Cathy Smith. They began a relationship, and the song “Sundown” documented their up-and-down love affair. At the time, Smith was a well-known ...

Sundown, that’s a lot of coin. Canadian folk-pop icon Gordon Lightfoot’s 1967 Gibson B45-12 Sunburst, which appeared on the cover of his 1974 album, Sundown, has sold for $350,000 US following an ...

Gordon Lightfoot, the Canadian singer-songwriter whose enduring folk hits included "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" and "Sundown," died Monday, his spokesperson told CNN. He was 84. Lightfoot died ...

So often it’s a girl — in this case, one named Beth, who Eric Elison was sweet on in high school and introduced him to Gordon Lightfoot before the 1974 “Sundown” album came out. “We went to her house ...

This interview with Gordon Lightfoot appeared in the Free Press on Oct. 28, 1974, just as his fame was beginning to skyrocket. Gordon Lightfoot couldn't help but grin when the first returns for his ...