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Gordon Lightfoot Celebrated 50 Years on the Carefree Highway in Davenport Tuesday



5/1/2013 5:55:12 AM


Gordon Lightfoot serenading a fully enthralled crowd at the Adler Theater Tuesday night. The crooner who's celebrating 50 years performing his folk-rock music delivered a warm, elegant and relaxed two hour performance that touched on each era of his career from his early days as a popular songwriter to the success of such 1970's top 40 classics like "Carefree Highway," "If I Could Read Your Mind" and his biggest hit, 1976's "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" all the way up through songs from his late 90's renaissance, 1998's "A Painter Passing Through." The larger than expected crowd at the Adler Theater loved every minute of it; rising more than once for standing ovations. Lightfoot continues his "50 Years on the Carefree Highway" tour this evening in Des Moines.