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Lightfoot
Lightfoot | Nicholas Jennings
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The definitive, full-access story of the life and songs of Canada's legendary troubadour Gordon Lightfoots name is synonymous with timeless songs about trains and shipwrecks, rivers and highways, lovers and loneliness. His music defined the folk-pop sound of the 1960s and 70s, topped charts and sold millions. He is unquestionably Canadas greatest songwriter, and an international star who has performed on the worlds biggest stages. While Lightfoots songs are well known, the man behind them is elusive. Hes never allowed his life to be chronicled in a bookuntil now. Biographer Nick Jennings has had unprecedented access to the notoriously reticent musician. Lightfoot takes us deep inside the artists world, from his idyllic childhood in Orillia, the wild sixties, and his canoe trips into Canadas North to his heady times atop the music world. Jennings explores the toll that success took on his personal lifeincluding his troubled relationships, his battle with alcohol and his near-death experiencesand the extraordinary drive and tenacity that pulled him through it all. Rich in voices from fellow musicians, close friends, Lightfoots family and the singers own reminiscences, the biography tells the stories behind some of his best-known 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 You Could Read My Mind. Kris Kristofferson has called Lightfoots songs some of the most beautiful and lasting music of our time. Lightfoot is an unforgettable portrait of a treasured singer-songwriter, an artist whose work has been covered by everyone from Joni Mitchell, Barbra Streisand and Nico to Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley and Gord Downie. Revealing and insightful, Lightfoot is both an inspiring story of redemption and an exhilarating read.
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Lightfoot | Nicholas Jennings
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marleed Haha. Two days ago I had Alexa shuffle Gordon Lightfoot! 2y
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TK-421
Lightfoot | Nicholas Jennings
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One of my favourite Gordie songs came to mind for #wall. I consider Lightfoot‘s lyrics poetic so I thought what the hell? Why not? Here‘s a youtube link if you want to give it a listen: https://youtu.be/YdYQCOKi1c8 #PoetryMatters

TheSpineView Songs can sure be poems set to music. Love this!💕 5y
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overtheedge
Lightfoot | Nicholas Jennings
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Mehso-so

Lightfoot
by Nicholas Jennings
2017
Viking
3.8 / 5.0

Exhaustive and definitive, this bio took 12 years of research and interviews. It gives a comprehensive look at Gordon Lightfoots career, his life, his lives and his demons.
Packed with great photos, this would be a perfect gift for any fan or person interested in his life.
Highly recommended.
#teamslaughter #scarathon @Clwojick

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GripLitGrl
Lightfoot | Nicholas Jennings
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#TimbitTunes #blackdayinjuly
@Cinfhen @TheKidUpstairs
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Cinfhen Thanks for sharing. So interesting to read the story behind the lyrics 6y
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Lightfoot | Nicholas Jennings
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Day 18 - #blackdayinjuly #timbittunes

Black day in July
Motor city madness has touched the countryside
And through the smoke and cinders
You can hear it far and wide
The doors are quickly bolted
And the children locked inside
Black day in July
Black day in July
And the soul of Motor City is bared across the land
As the book of law and order is taken in the hands
Of the sons of the fathers who were carried to this land
Black day in July

Suzze I lived in Detroit then. My brothers were a Detroit cops. It was a crazy tine for sure. 6y
KarynGood ❤️ 6y
Cinfhen Wow @Suzze I can‘t imagine what that must have been like. 6y
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TK-421
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I grew up listening to Gordon Lightfoot & he's still one of my favourite songwriters. When I hear the word #neon, I always think of this song, "Home From The Forest." #QuotsyDec18

Bklover If you could read my mind love, what a tale my thoughts would tell🎶🎵 I love Gordon Lightfoot. 6y
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"#Early Morning Rain expressed a palpable longing while expertly contrasting the rural past & urban present in one brilliant line about freight trains & jet planes. There was real emotion in the song. Lightfoot had placed himself directly in the story, summoning his own experience of travel & homesickness for inspiration...memories of big 707s, a rain-soaked runway & feeling a long way from home had given him his first great song." #QuotsyJune18

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"A sense of melancholy, a mixture of heartbreak and regret, had always been present in Lightfoot's work. Love and loneliness permeated the songs on #Harmony, his first post-Warner album..." #QuotsyFeb18

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Lightfoot | Nicholas Jennings
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So far, my goals are to finish my current reads and participate in Litsy Party of One & Throwback Readathon. #AnticipatedJanuaryReads #JaninBooks18