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Lightfoot was Canada’s Bob Dylan
Lightfoot was Canada’s Bob Dylan

Lightfoot was Canada’s Bob Dylan

Well, this week/month started out with sad news for us Baby Boomers: Singer/ Songwriter Gordon Lightfoot died Monday at the age of 84. If he had made it to November, he would have turned 85.Known as Canada’s version of Bob Dylan, Lightfoot rose to fame in the mid-to-late 1960s and ‘70s. So much so, that when you switched the AM dial to another station, before FM became a big hit playing LPs, you couldn’t help but stumble across another “Gordo” song as he was soon nicknamed.His chief biographer, Nicholas Jennings, once wrote that Lightfoot’s name “is synonymous with timeless songs ...

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