Gordon Lightfoot: The Music of the Song
10 min readNov 7, 2018
[This article also appeared on the author’s webpage, A Curious Man]
You can blame him, you can thank him, but Johnny Cash is the one who led me to being a Gordon Lightfoot fan.
As a boy in upstate New York’s Hudson River Valley, in the 1960s, I spent countless hours listening to Cash’s music from an older brother’s record collection.