Gordon was not really criticizing, here's what I was referring to:
http://www.canoe.ca/JamMusicArtistsL/lightfoot.html
"Last month, he was honoured at the Canadian Country Music Awards with tribute covers performed by Anne Murray (Cotton Ginny), Ian Tyson (Early Morning Rain) and Ron Sexsmith (If You Could Read My Mind). "It was very interesting," Lightfoot says laconically of Sexsmith's moody rendition. "I might have played it a little faster."