Yes, indeed, Gord can and does write his own music. An excerpt from the Globe and Mail article last month:
He took his cues early on from Bob Dylan, who established, as Lightfoot puts it, "that you could crank out songs" even when maybe you didn't feel like it. He takes pride in the fact that he can write his own music and arrangements, skills he picked up during three semesters at the Westlake School of Modern Music in Los Angeles, where he moved when he was 19. "He writes like Mozart," [Murray] McLauchlan says. "He writes down actual notes. Everybody else just gets a bottle of Scotch and hammers away."
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