Sundown - Gordon Lightfoot - MP3 instrumental karaoke

After a stint studying jazz in LA, the late Gordon Lightfoot returned to Canada in the early 1960s and found himself at the vanguard of the Toronto folk scene. Some of his songs were even recorded by the likes of Bob Dylan and Peter, Paul and Mary. By the 1970s, he was a bona fide major-label folkie, having signed to Warner Bros./Reprise in 1970 and bagging his trademark hit "If You Could Read My Mind" that year. However, "Sundown" is still his greatest commercial feat, and the accompanying LP became the only one of his albums to hit number one on the pop chart in the US. "Sundown" is the title track of his ninth studio album and his biggest chart-buster. Inspired by a rocky relationship with a woman named Cathy Smith, this heartbroken slice of country-folk struck number one on US pop and adult contemporary charts and ensured the Canadian star's continued reign on the scene for decades to come.