Gordon Lightfoot - Gordon Lightfoot - Complete Greatest Hits
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Free Music Review: Hurrah & at long last
Hit: 5 Stars
For years Lightfoot's more casual fans have had to choose between the 4-CD box set from Rhino, or buying both volumes of Gord's Gold. This single disc retrospective is a much tidier, wonderfully essential collection.It follows in the Rhino tradition of extracting the very best of a box set for a single CD (Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Alice Cooper, Deep Purple, Randy Newman, America are previous examples) that hands down beats any previous compilation. And also in the Rhino tradition, they've pick the cream of the crop.
Lightfoot's flat but deep voice has never been as important as the stories and imagery of his songs. From the early Canadian hit "Go Go Round" (circa 1966) to the modern folk classic "Edmund Fitzgerald" (which was only held out of the #1 spot on Billboard by Rod Stewart's "Tonight's The Night"), he has been the people's troubadour & storyteller. There's sadly no place for his like these days on the radio, so Lightfoot could well be the last of his kind to have the level of success he has.
Highly, highly, highly recommended.
Free Music Review: A good compilation for the beginner Gord fan.
Hit: 5 Stars
If you're just getting into Gordon Lightfoot for the first time then this is an excellent way to start, but this single disc fails to encompass all the great music this man produced. My personal favorite song of his (and my favorite song of all time) is "beautiful." Songs of this nature with their breathtaking string arrangements and haunting melodies conjure up images of lands far away and locales of immeasureable beauty (which is exactly what Gordon was trying to do.) Other noteworthy hits such as "carefree highway", "sundown", and "if you could read my mind" garnered great airplay for Gordon during the mid-to-late 70's and still can be heard on some oldies stations to this day. "The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" even got all the way to #2 in 1976. This cd gives a decent mix of Gordon's earlier work with the United Artists recoding label in the late 60's to his current day work with the Warner Brothers label. All in all, a good introduction to a man whose life and works have had a great impact upon folk music and my own personal life in more ways than I can ever begin to say.Free Music Review: I love songs about maritime disasters
Hit: 5 Stars
So it's obvious why I like Gordon Lightfoot. I'm not going to tell you a giant fib, I dig songs like Sundown and If you could read my mind as well, but Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is just off the chain whack. I have a band in Gretna called, Sons of the seas, we sing nothing but songs about ships that have sunk. It's me on vocals(of course), J abs on drums(duh), Burns on keyboards and pan flute and Kroll on bass guitar,accordian and dog whistle. We have do some covers like this the Edmund Fitzgerald, but have also wrote some phenomenal songs like:
Billy Zane is a meanie(the story of Titanic)
Uh Oh, the Lusitania is sinking!
The story of that ship in Michigan
The tugboat that couldn't float anymore
There be a hole in our boat
We play to big crowds and dress just like Captain Stubing from the love boat with real captain's hats. We throw life preservers out to the crowd to give our show that added spice. Women dig this project and I invite a couple of them to walk my plank after each show.
Free Music Review: I can't get enough of Gordon and his incredible talent
Hit: 5 Stars
This is a wonderful compilation of some of his best-loved songs, and I find it common for me to just play it over and over again,ad nauseum. I was a teenager in the 60's and didn't really pay much attention to him during those early years, but somehow the truth, magic and wonder of this man's incredible talent grew on me and its clear to see that it just shines through the plethora of artists who have come and gone over the years. His songs such as 'Stay Loose' and 'Ribbon of Darkness'(not on this album) are so powerful , they helped me feel, and understand the depth of pain and the eventual recovery of a tragic period in my life when my marriage failed. After he is no longer with us, generations will be able to listen , reflect , and admire with pleasure this icon of Canada's contribution to music this past century. He makes me very proud to be a Canadian and to have had the good fortune to have been here while he composed and performed so many wonderful, wonderful songs. Just a remarkable man.Free Music Review: Solid Gold
Hit: 5 Stars
There are other Gordon Lightfoot's anthologies and greatest hits albums but this one is perfect because it includes all of his greatest tunes. When a Canadian icon is known across the border in the U. S. he must be doing something right. I grew up in the 70's so my personal favourites were cuts such as the bittersweet" If You Could Read my Mind, Talking in Your Sleep, Beautiful, Sundown, Carefree Highway, Rainy Day People", and the haunting "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald". The last time that I saw Mr. Lightfoot was at the "Live 8" concert from Barrie Ontario. He looked a little out of place with all of the rockers that were playing that day and especially at the end of the concert. Especially so when he was on stage en mass with Neil Young singing "Rockin' in the Free World". But we could have lost him through illness a year or so before so thats one of the reasons he was invited. An icon. To be appreciated. And he was. And thankfully still is.