Sundown is Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot's tenth original album, released in 1974 on the Reprise Records label. It reached #1 in the US on the pop chart, the first and only of Lightfoot's albums to achieve this. In his native Canada, it topped the RPM 100 for five consecutive weeks, first hitting #1 on June 22, 1974, the same day it reached the top on the south of the border. Sundown is Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot's tenth original album, released in 1974 on the Reprise Records label. It reached #1 in the US on the pop chart, the first and only of Lightfoot's albums to achieve this. In his native Canada, it topped the RPM 100 for five consecutive weeks, first hitting #1 on June 22, 1974, the same day it reached the top on the south of the border. false 2023-12-31 04:09:17 Sundown 2015 2015-01-01 2015-01-01 37 Contemporary Folk Folk Folk Pop Rock Singer-Songwriter 118014 2152547 97d54dce-927b-407e-bb9c-5fadc4e8fb73 9d97b077-b28d-4ba8-a3d9-c71926e3b2b6 5a28c1e7-cb2d-324c-a263-685544d847a4 /media/data/media4/Music/Gordon Lightfoot/Sundown (1974)/folder.jpg Gordon Lightfoot AlbumArtist Gordon Lightfoot Artist Gordon Lightfoot Gordon Lightfoot 1 Somewhere U.S.A. 02:55 2 High and Dry 02:17 3 Seven Island Suite 06:03 4 Circle of Steel 02:49 5 Is There Anyone Home? 03:19 6 The Watchman’s Gone 04:20 7 Sundown 03:37 8 Carefree Highway 03:45 9 The List 03:10 10 Too Late for Prayin’ 04:15 Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr. (November 17, 1938 – May 1, 2023) was a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist who achieved international success in folk, folk-rock, and country music. He is credited with helping to define the folk-pop sound of the 1960s and 1970s. He has been referred to as Canada's greatest songwriter, having several gold and multi-platinum albums and songs covered by some of the world's most renowned musical artists. Lightfoot's biographer Nicholas Jennings said, "His name is synonymous with timeless songs about trains and shipwrecks, rivers and highways, lovers and loneliness." Lightfoot's songs, including "For Lovin' Me", "Early Morning Rain", "Steel Rail Blues", "Ribbon of Darkness"—a number one hit on the U.S. country chart with Marty Robbins's cover in 1965—and "Black Day in July", about the 1967 Detroit riot, brought him wide recognition in the 1960s. Canadian chart success with his own recordings began in 1962 with the No. 3 hit "(Remember Me) I'm the One", followed by recognition and charting abroad in the 1970s. He topped the US Hot 100 or Adult Contemporary (AC) chart with the hits "If You Could Read My Mind" (1970), "Sundown" (1974); "Carefree Highway" (1974), "Rainy Day People" (1975), and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" (1976), and had many other hits that appeared in the top 40. Robbie Robertson of the Band described Lightfoot as "a national treasure". Bob Dylan, also a Lightfoot fan, called him one of his favourite songwriters and said, "I can't think of any Gordon Lightfoot song I don't like. Every time I hear a song of his, it's like I wish it would last forever.... ". Lightfoot was a featured musical performer at the opening ceremonies of the 1988 Winter Olympic Games in Calgary, Alberta and has received numerous honours and awards.