On the news of Gordon Lightfoot’s passing, The Globe’s resident music lovers (current and former) reflect on his musical legacy.
lessons when I was 11 or 12 years old. I was still learning how to think about performing, and I remember how I went through each verse with my singing teacher, line by line, trying to figure out what they meant and how I could use my own emotions to give them meaning. I remember working to picture a lamp on a wooden table in a small dark room, or what it would be like to look out a window with snow draped over it like cobwebs. The lyrics were so precise and so evocative.
I didn’t hear Gordon Lightfoot’s version of the song until years later. It was softer than how I knew it, somehow more intimate. It showed me how just very personal the song was. I came back to the song many times over the years. I performed it at Christmas concerts, and one time in front of a small group of friends on the shores of Lake Superior. Still to this day, it’s one of my favourite songs to sing.I came to Canada when I was 15 but it was only when I headed to Edmonton in my early 20s – like many others I went West for work – that I first heard Gord. It was theand I played it on repeat on my drive on the Yellowhead Trail into Edmonton.
I, too, understood what it was like to be living across the country trying to make your way. Every verse spoke to me, and as I watched the dawn come up on my drive to work or sink back down on my drives home, I felt a connection to this land:Across the wide prairies our loved ones lie sleepingGord’s music was always with me no matter where I went: Vancouver, Iqaluit, Ottawa, Toronto and the long drives through the Rockies and along the Dempster Highway.
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