Sundown (Gordon Lightfoot song)
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| Single by Gordon Lightfoot | ||||
| from the album Sundown | ||||
| B-side | "Too Late for Prayin'" | |||
| Released | March 25, 1974 | |||
| Format | 7" 45 RPM | |||
| Genre | Folk rock, country rock | |||
| Length | 3:37 | |||
| Label | Reprise | |||
| Writer(s) | Gordon Lightfoot | |||
| Producer(s) | Lenny Waronker | |||
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"Sundown" is a song by Canadian folk artist Gordon Lightfoot, from the eponymous album, released as a single in March 1974.
"Sundown" reached number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and easy listening charts and number thirteen on the Hot Country singles chart, as well as number one in Canada on RPM's national singles chart. It was Lightfoot's only single to reach number one on the Hot 100.
The song's lyrics seem to describe a troubled romantic relationship, with the narrator recounting an affair with a "hard-loving woman [who's] got me feeling mean".
There are rumours that "Sundown" was inspired by Lightfoot's then girlfriend, Cathy Smith, later more infamously known for her involvement in the 1982 drug-related death of actor John Belushi. Lightfoot has commented in interviews that Smith was "the one woman in my life who most hurt me".
Engineered by Lee Herschberg
Recorded at Eastern Sound Studios, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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