One of Gordon Lightfoot’s biggest singles owes its title to a road sign that happened to catch the Canadian songwriter’s eye as he drove along State Route 74 in the northern part of metro Phoenix.

Gordon Lightfoot couldn't help but grin when the first returns for his Warner Bros.-Reprise "Sundown" album came in. Gordon Lightfoot in 1974. The title song and "Carefree Highway" from the album were ...

TORONTO — Gordon Lightfoot, a Canadian folk singer whose hits included “Sundown,” “If You Could Read My Mind,” “Carefree Highway” and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” died Monday. He was 84.

Gordon Lightfoot, the Canadian singer-songwriter whose graceful and literate songwriting made him one of the most respected folk-rooted musicians to emerge in the 1960s, died on Monday. He was 84. His ...

Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, who helped pave the way for the ’70s folk-rock sound, died of natural causes Monday evening at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto. He was 84. His family ...

It feels like Gordon Lightfoot has always been with me. I mean, was there ever a time when “Old Dan’s Records,” “Canadian Railroad Trilogy,” “If You Could Read My Mind,” “Sundown” and “Cotton Jenny” ...

A posthumous LP by Gordon Lightfoot, titled At Royal Albert Hall, will arrive on July 14. The double live album was recorded at the prestigious music venue in London, where Lightfoot, who died earlier ...