History Music / GordonLightfoot

* BreakUpSong: "If You Could Read My Mind"

* EpicRocking: "Canadian Railroad Trilogy" and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" both extend past the six-minute mark.

* RippedFromTheHeadlines: "Black Day in July" (about the 1967 Detroit riots), "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" (about a 1975 shipwreck on Lake Superior), both written and recorded shortly after the actual events happened.
* ShapedLikeItself: "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"

* OddFriendship: Creator/AlanThicke was a close friend.

* RippedFromTheHeadlines: "Black Day in July" (about the 1967 Detroit riots), "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" (about a 1975 shipwreck on Lake Superior), both recorded not long after the actual events happened.

* PublicDomainCharacter: "Don Quixote", which imagines him doing battle against various modern social ills.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: "Black Day in July" (about the 1967 Detroit riots), "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" (about a 1975 shipwreck on Lake Superior), both recorded a year after the actual events happened.

* EpicRocking: "Canadian Railroad Trilogy" extends past the six-minute mark.

!!Tropes seen in his work:

Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr. (born November 17, 1938) is one of the best (and best-known) folk-rock {{Singer Songwriter}}s to come out of UsefulNotes/{{Canada}}.

Gordon Lightfoot (born November 17, 1938) is one of the best (and best-known) folk-rock {{Singer Songwriter}}s to come out of UsefulNotes/{{Canada}}.

The UsefulNotes/{{Ontario}} native first emerged in [[TheSixties the early 1960s]] as a writer of hit songs for other artists, including Music/PeterPaulAndMary ("Early Mornin' Rain", "For Lovin' Me") and Music/MartyRobbins ("Ribbon of Darkness"). His own debut single was released in 1962, and he began releasing albums in 1966, but his best-known hits came in TheSeventies, including "If You Could Read My Mind" (1970), "Sundown" (1974), "Carefree Highway" (1974), "Rainy Day People" (1975), and "The Wreck of the ''Edmund Fitzgerald''" (1976).

* ''Waiting for Yoy'' (1993)

The Ontario native first emerged in the early 1960s as a writer of hit songs for other artists, including Music/PeterPaulAndMary ("Early Mornin' Rain", "For Lovin' Me") and Marty Robbins ("Ribbon of Darkness'). His own debut album was released in 1966, but his best-known hits came in the '70s, including "If You Could Read My Mind" (1970), "Sundown" (1974), "Rainy Day People" (1975), and "The Wreck of the ''Edmund Fitzgerald''" (1976).

Gordon Lightfoot (born November 17, 1938) is one of the best (and best-known) folk-rock {{Singer Songwriter}}s to come out of Canada.

Gordon Lightfoot (born November 17, 1938) is one of the best (and best-known) folk-rock {{Singer Songwriter}}s to come out of Canada. The Ontario native first emerged in the early 1960s as a writer of hit songs for other artists, including Music/PeterPaulAndMary ("Early Mornin' Rain", "For Lovin' Me") and Marty Robbins ("Ribbon of Darkness'). His own debut album was released in 1966, but his best-known hits came in the '70s, including "If You Could Read My Mind" (1970), "Sundown" (1974), "Rainy Day People" (1975), and "The Wreck of the ''Edmund Fitzgerald''" (1976).

Gordon Lightfoot (born November 17, 1938) is one of the best (and best-known) folk-rock {{Singer Songwriter}}s to come out of Canada. The Ontario native first emerged in the early 1960s as a writer of hit songs for other artists, including Music/PeterPaulAndMary ("Early Mornin' Rain", "For Lovin' Me") and Marty Robbins ("Ribbon of Darkness'). His own debut album was released in 1966.