‘Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind’
Gordon Lightfoot, one of the preeminent troubadours of the 1960s and ’70s, has been enjoying a bit of a resurgence of late. Big time directors Rian Johnson and Harmony Korine each used “Sundown,” Lightfoot’s 1974 Billboard chart-topper, to score pivotal scenes in their recent movies (Knives Out and The Beach Bum, respectively). This documentary, much like Lightfoot’s soothing voice, has a noticeable calming effect, and will have you queueing up Lightfoot’s greatest hits —”The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”! “Early Morning Rain”! “If You Could Read My Mind”!— for days and days afterwards. (Read our full review of Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind.)