Gordon Lightfoot's Death Is a Loss That Feels Personal
Briefly

When I was growing up, Gordon Lightfoot songs played on the living room stereo, on the radio in the kitchen and in the family car and on my dad's guitar so continuously that it felt like the Canadian singer-songwriter, who died in a Toronto hospital on Monday at 84, lived with us.[Read: Gordon Lightfoot, Hitmaking Singer-Songwriter, Is Dead at 84] Image Nature and wilderness were central themes of Gordon Lightfoot's music.Credit...Reuters I talked this week with my mom and dad, who are 82, about the musician who made the soundtrack to our lives.
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