The woman behind Gordon Lightfoot\u0027s classic song Sundown
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It was Lightfoot’s most lucrative song and a No. 1 hit and was about his tumultuous relationship with a woman named Cathy Smith, who first worked for Lightfoot as a backup singer and then became his mistress in the 1970s.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary SUN, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
with a fatal dose of heroin and cocaine in 1982. Smith would serve 15 months in the California state prison system.. Clearly Lightfoot was impacted by the violent and complicated relationship, writing: “She’s a hard-loving woman, got me feelin’ mean.” Lightfoot allegedly broke Smith’s cheekbone in a fight.Article content
The most famous lyrics from the song are: “Sometimes I think it’s a shame. When I get feeling better when I’m feeling no pain.”.Lightfoot would indicate in interviews that he wrote the song while on a songwriting roll while Smith was out at a bar with friends and he was wondering what she was up to. “ASundown, just as the sun was setting, behind the farm I had rented to use as a place to write the album,” Lightfoot said in a Reddit ask me anything nine years ago.
Smith was cited in Lightfoot’s divorce papers, which saw the musician pay what was at the time the most expensive divorce settlement in Canadian history.
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