Lightfoot - Nicholas Jennings

Gordon Lightfoot''s songs have inspired and enchanted fans for more than fifty years. In addition to winning nearly every Canadian music award, in 2012, Lightfoot was inducted into the American Songwriters Hall of Fame alongside such luminaries as Leonard Cohen, Kris Kristoffersen, and Dylan; it honoured Lightfoot as a singer who helped ''define the folk-pop sound of the 1960s and ''70s.'' Biographer Nick Jennings has had unprecedented access to the notoriously reticent musician