GORDON LIGHTFOOT: 80 YEARS STRONG TOUR

AT THE SABAN THEATRE IN BEVERLY HILLS - MARCH 9. 2019, 8pm

A PAINTER PASSING THROUGH

By Ross Altman, PhD

“The folk revival lasted from 1960,” said Gordon Lightfoot in a whimsical moment,

“to 1963—from Bob Dylan and Joan Baez to Phil Ochs to Ramblin’ Jack Elliot.” And here we are, forty-five years later, and we’re still playing their songs—Early Morning Rain, If You Could Read My Mind, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, and Ribbon of Darkness. But we’re not playing them all—more like a Reader’s Digest Version. Gone is the epic Canadian Railroad Trilogy—gone is the second set from two years ago—it’s now a lean, clean, well-oiled 90 minute machine, with a few pauses for emphasis, but you’d never know it from the rousing reception Lightfoot receives from beginning to end. It turns out that less is more—and small is Beautiful.

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