Javier’s English Corner

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Archive for August 5th, 2007

Gordon Lightfoot

On my last post I mentioned Gordon Lightfoot, a prolific Canadian singer, writer and poet. He may not be that popular in Spain, but he’s a whole institution in Canada, and most of his songs have been covered by many international singers. He was born in 1938 and he’s still touring, even though he was rather sick a few years back.

Gordon Lightfoot

I have chosen perhaps his most popular song, If you could read my mind, in his original album version from 1970. You will notice that the video is actually only a picture of Gordon Lightfoot, but all the live videos I’ve found show Gordon only a few years ago, and I wanted you to listen to the first recording. If you’d like to see a video of a recent live version by this brilliant singer, go to the following link live version

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