We Remember Gordon Lightfoot

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

🗓️ 9 May 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Last week, we lost the great singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot. In honor of his passing, Alec is sharing his 2016 conversation with the musician, one of his favorites in the history of the podcast: Over the course of a career that has lasted more than half a century, Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot 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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1:42.4	This is Alec Baldwin, and you're listening to Here's the Thing from iHeart Radio.
1:48.6	Last week we lost one of the grades. Singer, songwriter, folk rock legend, and hands down one of
1:55.7	the kindest people I've ever met in the making of this podcast, musician Gordon Lightfoot.
2:02.1	I wanted to take a moment to remember Lightfoot and his influence on all who were lucky enough
2:07.8	to hear his music. Lightfoot was on a short list of music legends I was anxious to interview.
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