Lightfoot's only album to reach the top 10 aside from Sundown, this was pushed upward by the presence of "Rainy Day People," one of Lightfoot's five top 40 hit...
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Once you find a formula that works, why not try it again? That is just what Gordon Lightfoot does on Cold on the Shoulder. He doesn't vary from his success of the Sundown...
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Gordon Lightfoot's friendly folk sound grew even stronger on Summer Side of Life, an album that has him curling up with both his guitar and his kind, fragile voice. Even...
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Perhaps one of his most Canadian releases, Don Quixote is a very pleasant folk sounding album. From "Alberta Bound" to "Christian Island" to "Ode to Big Blue," Lightfoot...
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From Herman Melville to Stephen King, writers have tried for centuries to understand the balance between man versus nature. Few, however, articulate it better in verse and...
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With the release of A Painter Passing Through, Lightfoot appears to have found home and has turned in his best work in years. Gone are the uncertain arrangements of the...
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Recorded at a March 1969 concert in Toronto, this holds more interest than the usual live album because about half of the songs are Lightfoot compositions that had not been...
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While most of Lightfoot's best material was recorded for United Artists Records, this--his Reprise Records debut--matches up to most of it. Between the title track and "Sit...
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Originally released as Sit Down Young Stranger in the summer of 1970, this album was reissued under this name a few months later, as the song "If You Could Read My Mind"...
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This double CD contains all four of the Toronto singer/songwriter's '60s studio albums (the live LP Sunday Concert, not included here, was also released in the '60s). On...
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Lightfoot's most recent album--and it's been out for a while now--this features a cover of Bob Dylan's "Ring Them Bells." You'd think between the two of those guys, they'd...
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Anyone fearing that sobriety and serenity might dull Gordon Lightfoot's creative edge can rest at ease. Having apparently freed himself of several personal demons, Waiting...
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Following the success of Sundown, Gordon Lightfoot continued his success by releasing a greatest-hits compilation. A double album (now a single CD), it contained his most...
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The second volume of Gord's Gold follows the same tradition of the first, but in this case, it doesn't make sense, for re-recording tunes which were already in an updated...
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Lightfoot was already 27 at the time of his solo debut, which might have accounted in part for the unusually fully developed maturity and confidence on this recording, in...
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With Summertime Dream, Gordon Lightfoot produced one of his finest albums, and wrapped up a six-year period of popularity that he would not recapture. Propelled by his...
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Lightfoot's commercial peak came with this album, which topped the US charts, containing both the #1 title song and the Top 10 hit "Carefree Highway." But songs like...
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Early Morning Rain is a budget-line, 12-track sampler of Lightfoot's early recordings, featuring versions of "Early Morning Rain," "The Last Time I Saw Her," "I Want to Hear...
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It's a real shame Gordon Lightfoot's biggest hit was the shipwreck ballad "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald." As a result, many still dismiss him as a kind of...
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Like most of Emmylou Harris' albums, Bluebird is an expertly performed album, featuring some truly startling and affecting tour de forces. The material features a handful of...
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Rhino's 2002 collection The Complete Greatest Hits is certainly welcome for presenting what is essentially all of his most popular songs on one 20-track disc, but, the thing...
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Few singer/songwriters have given as much quality material to the medium as Canadian-born troubadour Gordon Lightfoot, so it comes as no surprise that after suffering a...
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