From this morning's DAILY VARIETY:
Inside Move: From 'Sundown' to second act
Canuck hitmaker back on tracks after illness
By STEVEN GAYDOS
This time last year, Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot was battling for his life, having suffered a ruptured artery. His larynx shredded from the emergency procedures, the odds against the troubadour surviving, let alone continuing to make music, looked bleak.
So it's no small feat that Lightfoot celebrated his 65th birthday Nov. 17 by working on the mixes for an as-yet untitled new album. After decades with Warner Bros, he's got a new record deal with young Canadian indie Linus Records, which is distributed in Canada by Warners.
Prexy Geoff Kulawick says the goal at Linus is "to make this the biggest album of Lightfoot's career."
The tracks were put together over the past three years and include, says Kulawick, "everything from full-fledged masters to brilliant demos that Gordon has dug into and 'sexed-up.' "
The author of "Early Mornin' Rain" and "If You Could Read My Mind" is also working on a musicvideo and getting involved in film and TV projects related to his songs.
A tribute album called "Beautiful" (Borealis/NorthernBlues) has also just come out.
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