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Title: Gordon Lightfoot on Dylan, Neil Young, and Stompin' Tom Connors
Author: Alec Baldwin, Gordon Lightfoot
Format: Original Recording
Length: 38 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-25-16
Publisher: Heres the Thing, WNYC Studios
Genres: Radio & TV, Entertainment
Summary:
Over the course of a career that has lasted more than half a century, Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot has achieved global stardom and exceptional influence. Bob Dylans a fanhe's said, I cant think of any [Lightfoot songs] I dont like. These songsBeautiful, Sundown, If You Could Read My Mind, and many othershave been treasured by generations of popular musicians and listeners around the world. But Gordon Lightfoot was just one of many aspirants who moved to Toronto in the early 1960s to try their hand in the burgeoning folk music scene there. Lightfoot tells host Alec Baldwin about fitting a feeling to a melody, why he owes his first hit record to an exec's girlfriend, and how he wrote "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" by pulling lines straight from the newspaper.
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