Gordon Lightfoot

Biography

Canadian singer-songwriter from Orillia, Ontario, Gordon Lightfoot was a central figure of the folk revival whose songs were covered by *Bob Dylan*, *Johnny Cash* and *Barbra Streisand*. His own hits, including 'Sundown', 'If You Could Read My Mind' and 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald', made him a beloved national institution in Canada across a career spanning six decades of writing, recording and touring.