Gordon Lightfoot - Summer Staff Picks

Here's The Thing with Alec Baldwin

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Tv & Film, Music, Music Interviews, Arts, Performing Arts, Film Interviews

4.4 • 8.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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It’s Alec’s turn to pick one of his most beloved episodes in the summer archive series. This week, we feature one of his favorite musicians, Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, from their 2013 conversation. Over the course of a career that has lasted more than half a century, Lightfoot has achieved global stardom and exceptional influence. Bob Dylan’s a fan—he's said, “I can’t think of any [Lightfoot songs] I don’t like.” These songs—“Beautiful,” “Sundown,” “If You Could Read My Mind,” and many others—have been treasured by generations of popular musicians and listeners around the world. But Gordon Lightfoot was just one of many aspirants who moved to Toronto in the early 1960s to try their hand in the burgeoning folk music scene there. Lightfoot tells Alec about fitting a feeling to a melody, why he owes his first hit record to an exec's girlfriend, and how he wrote "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" by pulling lines straight from the newspaper.

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0:00.0	Yellowstone, television's number one show is back on Paramount Network.
0:03.6	I John Dutton, who solemnly swear to uphold the Constitution of the State of Montana,
0:08.4	against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
0:10.8	Featuring an all-star cast led by Academy Award winner Kevin Costner,
0:13.9	the invasion is over. They will fight you dirty.
0:16.0	Is there any other way?
0:17.2	As the Dutton family fights to protect their legacy, they'll learn power has a price.
0:21.1	Signed as a declaration of war.
0:23.2	We're already at war.
0:24.2	Yellowstone, new episodes Sundays at 8 p.m. Eastern, exclusively on Paramount Network.
0:30.4	This is Alec Baldwin, and you're listening to Here's the Thing from I Heart Radio.
0:36.4	We're nearing the end of our summer staff picks series.
0:40.4	Over the last few weeks, you've heard from the staff as they showcase their favorite episodes
0:46.0	from our archives. Now it's time to hear mine.
0:49.8	I wanted to share with you an episode from one of the kindest people I've met
0:53.7	in the making of this podcast, musician Gordon Lightfoot.
0:59.1	My conversation with the Canadian singer-songwriter of the 1970s hits,
1:04.5	if you could read my mind, beautiful, sundown, and the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
1:10.0	covers his beginnings in the industry, what changed in importance to him over time,
1:15.2	and his battle with some serious health issues.
1:18.0	Here's my 2016 conversation with Gordon Lightfoot.
1:23.7	At times I just don't know how you could be anything but beautiful.
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