I love Gordon Lightfoot. Here he is with Johnny Cash (holy cow, was Gord 5 here? So young!)

In an interview with George Strombalopoulos, Gordon mentioned how he got his start with other artists recording his songs. Ian and Sylvia Tyson were the first to record his music. So I poked around Youtube and found Jim Cuddy, another of my favourite Canadians, and Oh! Susannah, doing a cover of an Ian & Sylvia song.

Next thing I knew, I found Sam Roberts (someone give the boy a shave) doing one of my favourite GL songs:

And then I moved back to Jim, because Jim is like, the Silver Fox of Love to me (shut up!). Except YouTube wouldn’t yield the official video for “Too Many Hands“, so we make do with this shaky handheld vid: