We lost our primary Canadian troubadour Gordon Lightfoot this week. He was 85 years old.
An enormous talent with incredible music and lyrics left as his legacy. So many covers to his work they are uncountable.
His legacy is poetry, all songs a story.
When I lived in Toronto I never missed his annual concert at Massey Hall for countless years, forty, fifty?
But as I played all his albums I was profoundly shocked that I knew all the lyrics and sang along to every single word (with a tear or two for the memories they evoked).
And then I started to ponder on when did I stop singing?
I sang through so much in my life, I was a folk singer at one point, and on stage singing operettas, writing a musical ten years ago and having that performed to sold out shows. I grew up in a singing house, spent many nights at pubs singing my heart out back in the day.
Singing "party pieces" at parties and gathering, along with my family members. Singing solo pieces on stage here, a few years ago.
Singing joint playlists with Grandgirl on our road trips.
And then I stopped.
Until Gordy died.
Thank you, Gordy. Soar with the stars, buddy.
