Late folk-pop legend Gordon Lightfoot’s final album is arriving in July – Fakazakamp

The late Canadian folk-pop legend Gordon Lightfoot’s final album can be launched on July 14.

The seminal artist handed away at Sunnybrook Well being Sciences Centre in Toronto on Could 1, aged 84, his publicist Victoria Lord confirmed.

Gordon’s dying got here after his declining well being triggered him to axe his tour three weeks earlier.

And now, his final launch, the double reside album ‘At Royal Albert Corridor’, recorded at his seventh live performance on the famed London venue in 2016, has been introduced.

It consists of the hits ‘If You May Learn My Thoughts’, ‘The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald’, and ‘Early Morning Rain’.

Followers can count on “an unembellished reside mixture of that nights’ efficiency, with out edits, overdubs, remixing or re-sequencing. It captures each music carried out within the order they had been performed, proper all the way down to the encore.”

Gordon died of pure causes.

Nonetheless, the guitarist suffered from Bell’s palsy and was as soon as positioned in a coma in 2002 after an artery in his abdomen ruptured.

Adored by music legends, together with Bob Dylan, Gordon’s songs had been additionally lined by the likes of Elvis Presley, Barbra Streisand, Johnny Money, and even punk rockers Jane’s Dependancy.

Fellow Canadian Bryan Adams led tributes to the person who pioneered the folk-pop sound of the Sixties and Nineteen Seventies.

He wrote on Instagram alongside an image along with his idol: “This one is basically exhausting to jot down. As soon as in a blue moon you get to work and hang around with one of many folks you admired whenever you had been rising up. I used to be fortunate sufficient to say Gordon was my good friend and I am gutted to know he is gone. The world is a lesser place with out him. I do know I converse for all Canadians once I say: thanks for the songs, Gordon Lightfoot. Bless your candy songwriting coronary heart, RIP expensive good friend.”

Bob Dylan as soon as stated of Gordon: “I am unable to consider any Gordon Lightfoot music I do not like. Each time I hear a music of his, it is like I want it will final ceaselessly … Lightfoot grew to become a mentor for a very long time. I believe he most likely nonetheless is to today.”