Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind

I just finished a Gordon Lightfoot biography, so I figured watching this documentary was a good move. It’s a good companion to the book, the biographer is interviewed as well as Lightfoot himself and plenty of his musical peers. A lot of the stories told in this are the…

Villain

"I can't think of any Gordon Lightfoot song I don't like. Every time I hear a song of his, it's like I wish it would last forever." (Bob Dylan) Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot is a new (old time) find for me this year. I knew of some of his songs through people…

ANDREWGRAINGER1

When Gordon Lightfoot's "Sundown" hit Number 1 on the American charts back in 1974, my friends and I referred to him as "The Pirate" because...well...we thought he kinda sounded like Long John Silver singing about some lusty wench he caught "creepin' down my back stair." I…

mrbalihai

🎼🎵🎶🧔 Gordan Lightfoot is one of my favorite musicians of all time. Before realizing the poetry of the lyrics in a song of his, I initially respond to the gentle hooks and absorbing melodies. Unlike Adele and Elton John among singers, I had only known the songs and a few…

🎭Matthew Ramsey🎙️

Growing up, I think I heard Gordon Lightfoot songs incessantly on the radio but never really paid attention as it seemed geared towards adult contemporary folk listeners. All the while my friends were collecting Kiss albums. I really tried to follow the crowd throughout my…

Mark

For a few minutes at the outset of Martha Kehoe and Joan Tosoni’s documentary, I felt a spark of possibility: There was legendary Canadian singer/songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, watching footage of himself from 50 years earlier, lamenting how his then-wife must have felt about…

Scott Renshaw

I discovered Gordon's music when living in Canada years ago. His music quickly became a big part of this Australian's education in all things "Canada". My love and appreciation for his work was only enhanced further by Gordon's amazing response to my question in a reddit…

CountingTheBeat

Serviceable enough, but I don't feel like I learned as much about Lightfoot himself as the scene and there have been so, so many movies about the scene. I wouldn't have minded a Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song treatment of the actual song "If You Could Read My…

Ian

I WOULD DIE FOR THIS MAN.  One of the best to ever do it. Such a simple, well made documentary to commemorate a legend. Canadian king <3

Shauna