Eric Elison celebrates Gordon Lightfoot in Beaver Creek

Eric Elison celebrates Gordon Lightfoot in Beaver Creek

So often it’s a girl — in this case, one named Beth, who Eric Elison was sweet on in high school and introduced him to Gordon Lightfoot before the 1974 “Sundown” album came out. “We went to her house and unwrapped a Lightfoot album. He had just come out with an album called ‘Don Kearney,’ and I sat there in Beth’s living room. We put the album on the big stereo, and her mom made us a plate of chocolate chip cookies. Beth was sitting there, we we…