Gordon Lightfoot - Songbook
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Free Music Review: Maybe it's just me
Hit: 2 Stars
I liked the Lightfoot stuff on United Artists. I LOVED the stuff on Warner Brothers. My problem with this set is that after Lightfoot settled on a recording group for several 70s albums in a row, they re-recorded some of the earlier songs, like "Bittergreen," with fuller instrumentation and better production. The songs here are great. They're just not the versions I have come to love. Better to splurge for a couple of volumes of "Gord's Gold," and a few LPs like "Summer Side of Life," and get the songs as Lightfoot finally and fully realized them. I bought this box set and was bitterly disappointed. His mature versions of the same songs are infinitely more moving.Gord's GoldSummer Side of LifeGord's Gold, Vol. 2Free Music Review: Great Set of Songs
Hit: 5 Stars
This set encompasses both the well-known Lightfoot songs and a number of others--a great collection.Free Music Review: Must have for Gordon Lightfoot fans
Hit: 5 Stars
A wonderful journey through Gordon Lightfoot's career. His voice matures through the years represented on the 4 discs. The liner notes give some great background material. Lightfoot has been one of the most underrated writers and singers in the folk movement, as his insistence at doing things his way limited his commercial appeal in the US.
Hours of great music that is easy to listen to. The lyrics are so clear that you can really appreciate the poetry in these songs. Several songs have not appeared on other CD's.
A great find for Lightfoot fans.
Free Music Review: A MUST HAVE
Hit: 5 Stars
I have followed Meistro Lightfoot's music since the middle 60's and have seen him in concert more times than I can count from Masey Hall to Washington state. His music opens my heart and warms my soul. Anyone who is a Gordon Lightfoot fan SHOULD have this collection as it traces his music career from the beginning. HIs voice is strong and the musicianship of both Gordon and his band is extraordinary. Speckign of that I think that it is unfortunate that Terry Clement's has not received more press for his extraordinary and understated guitar playing. His talent is absolutely amazing. If anyone has had the pleasure and the privilige of seeing Mr. Clements perform the leads on "The Auctioneer" live you certainly know what I mean. In 1979 I had the privilige of going to Gordon's boyhood home and meeting his mother (I have her autograph). There were fotos of Lightfoot all over the house. As I was about to leave there was a foto of a family gathering hanging in the kitchen. Mrs. Lightfoot ask me "See if you can find my lottle Gordy in that picture". I looked and could not. She pointed to a very young mother sitting in the middle of the family holding an infant child. Mrs. Lightfoot said "There I am holding my little Gordy..."Free Music Review: Strange Track Selection
Hit: 4 Stars
Lightfoot is such an amazingly gifted songwriter and performer, and it's so refreshing to have this set, into which so much effort was put, that it seems petty to complain.
But here goes. There are quite a few songs that were hits on Canadian radio stations that are missing in action. Here's the list:
Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues (single only)
Spin Spin (single only)
(these two have never yet to my knowledge been released on LP or on CD)
Black Day in July (from Did She Mention My Name)
Talking In Your Sleep (from Summer Side Of Life)
You Are What I Am (from Old Dan's Records)
Daylight Katy (from Endless Wire)
If You Need Me (from Dream Street Rose)
Anything For Love (from East Of Midnight)
For someone who grew up listening to Lightfoot on Canadian top 40 stations the omission of these songs is inexplicable.
I also would have included:
Wherefor And Why (from Did She Mention My Name)
Walls (from The Way I Feel - that must be Charlie McCoy playing harmonica)
Ballad Of Yarmouth Castle (from Sunday Concert)
And I know it ultimately comes down to personal taste, but I would have omitted:
Something Very Special
Poor Little Allison
Cobwebs And Dust (surely Me & Bobbie McGhee would have been a better choice)
Ode To Big Blue