As Lightfoot’s biographer, I’ve travelled there many times, off and on, over a 12-year period.But I didn’t know that Lightfoot is anemic and, perhaps as a result, the hematoma still hasn’t fully healed. I walk across lightly fallen snow and ring his doorbell. She looks after me, and that means my family doesn’t have to do it — they should consider themselves lucky!
Today, his complex schedule would benefit from a flow chart, mapping out where and when he sees his large, extended family. Lightfoot was forced to cancel tour dates, something he hated doing.“Kim’s a very helpful and good person in so many ways,” he says. “Marriages that don’t succeed — I guess it relates to that.” When pressed, he recognizes his affairs are the reason the marriage failed. It was released 16 years after his last studio album Harmony.. “God, I don’t know.” Then he adds, in a voice that’s barely above a whisper: “I don’t actually know if I’ve made peace with anything.”Part of Lightfoot’s repentance involves making time for his kids, whom he says he neglected when his career was a constant cycle of writing, recording, touring, partying, sailing and then canoeing, drying out and getting fit for the next round of writing, recording and touring. “I haven’t quit smoking everything,” he explains with a grin, noting his taste for legal cannabis, “although I may switch to edibles.”Finally, I ask about personal demons and whether he’s been able to make peace with his life. Gordon Lightfoot has dodged death, had myriad romantic entanglements and outlasted most of his contemporaries. But Lightfoot dramatically changed his ways and now often speaks of being in a state of “repentance.” Along with no longer singing “For Lovin’ Me,” he rewrote the words to “If You Could Read My Mind” at the insistence of his daughter Ingrid. Artist: Gordon Lightfoot Title: Solo Year Of Release: 2020 Label: WM Canada Genre: Folk, Singer/Songwriter Quality: Mp3 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks) / 24bit-44.1kHz FLAC (tracks) Total Time: 33:45 Total Size: 77.8 / 181 / 353 MB WebSite: Album Preview Gordon Lightfoot’s biographer, Nicholas Jennings, has noted that his name “is synonymous with timeless songs about trains and shipwrecks, rivers and highways, lovers and loneliness.” On Solo , Lightfoot puts the emphasis squarely on the “lovers and loneliness” part of his legacy, as well as on the importance of self-reliance, staying true to self and striving to try new things. Add a Comment.
You can even buy Lightfoot CDs here. One moment, he experienced severe stomach pain, and the next thing he knew, he woke up to learn that he'd been in a six-week coma.Your email address is now confirmed.Gordon Lightfoot’s biographer, Nicholas Jennings, has noted that his name “is synonymous with timeless songs about trains and shipwrecks, rivers and highways, lovers and loneliness.”“I thought my fans would be interested in hearing what songs sound like when first written,” he has said."Sometimes you just have to wait, you know? Gordon Lightfoot has dodged death, had myriad romantic entanglements and outlasted most of his contemporaries.
One song, “Return into Dust,” finds him reflecting on his brushes with death.In the months before his aneurysm, he had written and laid down voice and guitar demos of some 19 new songs.
It's a must, because I know it's helping my singing. “To quote my friend Bob Dylan,” he replies, “‘Work while the day lasts because the night will come when you can no longer work.’ I’ve simply never wanted to retire.”Lightfoot had no shortage of affairs during his heyday, and his wild ways were fuelled by drugs and booze, sometimes a bottle of Canadian Club a day. Please enable Javascript in your browser and try again."He's never met me; I've never met him,” Lightfoot says. It also explains the folded lawn chair on the porch. He has always been a heavy smoker — he started when he was 15 and singing in barbershop quartets — but had his last cigarette in late 2018. His two eldest children, Fred, 56, and Ingrid, 54, from his first marriage to Brita, are in the Toronto area, and each have two kids of their own. There’s that minefield again.Meanwhile, Miles, 30, lives in Thornhill, while his sister, 25-year-old Meredith, who goes by their mother Elizabeth’s maiden name of Moon, has moved about while pursuing her musical ambitions as a singer-banjoist.