I just found out from my morning news feed: Canadian folk music icon Gordon Lightfoot dead at 84
My introduction to his music was in my Grade 7 music class. We learned a few of his songs, and I promptly picked a couple of them to learn on the organ (by ear; I've never had any sheet music for his songs). My grandmother really liked them - Early Morning Rain and Did She Mention My Name?
Later I learned The Canadian Railroad Trilogy, from one of my Irish Rovers albums (I honestly think they did a better job of that song than Lightfoot did).
But I think everyone is familiar with The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
We lost one of our national treasures last night.
Rest in peace.
My introduction to his music was in my Grade 7 music class. We learned a few of his songs, and I promptly picked a couple of them to learn on the organ (by ear; I've never had any sheet music for his songs). My grandmother really liked them - Early Morning Rain and Did She Mention My Name?
Later I learned The Canadian Railroad Trilogy, from one of my Irish Rovers albums (I honestly think they did a better job of that song than Lightfoot did).
But I think everyone is familiar with The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
We lost one of our national treasures last night.
Rest in peace.