Canada’s musical community weighs in on Gordon Lightfoot’s ‘genius’ and influence
Anne Murray carried many tunes throughout her singing career but she says the lyrical quality of a Gordon Lightfoot song rose above most others.
“The lyrics were easy to wrap your voice around. They were so personal and yet they all had such a universal feel to them and appealed to a lot of people … anyone would want to sing them.” She recalled a passing conversation with a stranger at the 2019 Mariposa Folk Festival, a longtime music event in Lightfoot’s hometown of Orillia, Ont. that helped launch his career and became forever linked with his legacy.
“Even though he did spend time in the United States and made records there,” Page added, “he was still deeply connected to the country, the landscape and the personality of Canada.” At that ceremony, he compared Lightfoot to one of the Group of Seven artists, a compliment Cochrane said resonated with the musician who “saw himself genuinely as the cultural embodiment of who we are as a nation.”
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