Comments by "wily wascal" (@wilywascal2024) on "What Makes This Song Great? \"If You Could Read My Mind\" Gordon Lightfoot" video.

Few people would call Gordon Lightfoot a blues artist, his genre is generally regarded as folk-pop, but his songs are more bluesy than those produced by most blues artists. Pardon the pun, but I think that is why Lightfoot's music strikes a chord with me and so many other people. It's perhaps no coincidence that Beato and his brother were drawn to the same element of a song that I was at that age, which is the apex of a song. It is the apex, and the emotion that it is able to convey, which is a big part of what makes a song great -- at least for me.
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