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See more ideas about gordon lightfoot, singer and folk music. Book the definitive, fullaccess story of the life and songs of canadas legendary troubadour gordon lightfoots name is synonymous with timeless songs about trains and shipwrecks, rivers and highways, lovers and loneliness. Song for a winters night by gordon lightfoot on amazon music. This rerelease of gordon lightfoot s first greatest hits album, originally published in the mid1970s, contains a medley of his first hit songs, im not saying and ribbon of darkness the latter made famous by marty robbins, as well as many other 60s and early70s classics like early morning rain, the brooding sundown, and if you could read my mind. If canada had a singing voice it would sound like gordon lightfoot, the great singersongwriter, and this song is my favorite of all. Song for a winters night gordon lightfoot composer steel rail blues gordon lightfoot contributor summer side of life. Songbook box set cd gordon lightfoot currently unavailable. Mar 24, 2017 explore queenslaces board seasons winter songs, followed by 4257. Warm, gentle and welcoming, gordon lightfoots folkrock disarms even the most cynical listener. Song for a winter s night, by gordon lightfoot, is one of his most beautiful love songs. Sep 26, 2017 rich in voices from fellow musicians, close friends, lightfoots family and the singers own reminiscences, the biography tells the stories behind some of his bestknown love songs, including beautiful and song for a winters night, as well as the infidelity and divorce that resulted in classics like sundown and if. Fyi music news to read this book is to come away with a greater understanding of. Gordon lightfoot song for a winters night tminus one week until my journey to canada.
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