This week in The Wall Street Journal, I interviewed Gordon Lightfoot on his #1 hit Sundown for my "Anatomy of a Song" column (go here). I also interviewed Lenny Waronker, the song's producer. Gordon opened up, and we talked about Cathy Smith, the woman he was living with in the early 1970s and whose decision one night to hit the bars with her girlfriend…
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