Gordon Lightfoot - Gordon Lightfoot - Complete Greatest Hits
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Free Music Review: Gordon Lightfoot
Hit: 5 Stars
Gordon Lightfoot - Complete Greatest Hits
This is the best and complete compilation of Gordon's music that I have ever come across. I would highly suggest this to any Gordon Lightfoot enthusiast.
Free Music Review: ahhhhh Gordon!
Hit: 5 Stars
What can I say? I just LOVE this man's voice!! What a talent! Great CD to add to one's "fave music" collection!Free Music Review: wonderful
Hit: 4 Stars
This has been a hard item to find. Has been great in getting it from Amonzon.Free Music Review: Forgotten how beautiful story telling can be
Hit: 5 Stars
Gordon Lightfoot is a true classic. His music and voice are timeless. When you really listen to the words, and the emphasis he gives them, it touches something deep inside. The song "Beautiful" is so simple yet pure. And the Edmund Fitzgerald tribute ... incredible story telling but the music evokes a storm and the ensuing tragedy. He hits a homerun with every song on this CD.
And it's so nice to hear a CD that has not been "digitally remastered". To me that means nothing but a ruined memory.
Free Music Review: Good as Gold
Hit: 4 Stars
The most amazing thing to contemplate while listening to this 20 song collection is that this man had hits. Not just low in the charts creepers, but top tens. When you listen to this husky baritone, richly masculine voice crooning smoothly over the best known songs like "Sundown" and "If You Could Read My Mind," it makes you wonder what happened to the old-fashioned art of the song, and feel a twinge of regret that an epic like "The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald" wouldn't have a ghost of a chance in today's radio world of insta-hits and ringtone bubblegum.
But that is exactly why this set (which neatly replaces Gord's Gold) such a joy. Lightfoot had a real man's angle in the folk world that existed in the same world as Beatlemania - his first album appeared in 1966 - that included popular artists like Peter Paul and Mary. Their covers of "Early Morning Rain" and "For Loving Me" are what started Lightfoot on his road, and as his music gained in sophistication and production, so did his commercial appeal. Astute production from his fans at Warner Brothers records made "If You Could Read My Mind" brilliant, and his darker tale of infidelity, "Sundown" into a number one record.
There is a poetic side to much of Lightfoot's best work, which is one of the reason everyone from Anne Murray to the soundtrack to 54 have used his songs. And despite the fact that his output decreased in the 80's (and the hits dried up), the last three songs here show that the quality was never in question.
Do you listen with longing to Seal & Crofts, Cat Stevens, America or CSN? Then Gordon's Complete Greatest Hits will sit nicely in your CD collection.