Lightfoot is remembered for telling Canadian stories, his gift as a lyricist and love of performing
, with its celebration of the beauty of nature, lit a spark in me,” said singer-songwriter Bruce Cockburn. “He made me want to do something like that too.”
It was not only musicians who remembered the gifted lyricist. Author Stephen King tweeted that Lightfoot was a “great songwriter and a wonderful performer,” and Winnipeg-raised novelist Guy Gavriel Kay said Lightfoot instilled a sense of national pride as “a Canadian who sang about Canadian things.”
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