Gordon Lightfoot "Songbook"

[Mike Dennis]

This is a four CD retrospect of Gordon's 40 year career and the material is quite impressive.

Including a 1962 production attempt to make Gordon into a Slim Whitman type country artist with "'(Remember Me) I'm The One" . Well I'm glad Gordon found his own direction.

There are many tracks that have steel guitar....

A lot of good songs here.

1999 release.


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[TomP]

Man, you sure are stacking up the responses here. The collective " Huh??" popped my ear drums all the way out in California.
A trully great artist that the country world has always largely overlooked. I think he and Marty Robbins were twin sons of different mothers.

[Chip Fossa]

Dennis, Gordon will playing at the newly renovated Calvin Theatre in Northampton, MA
sometime in early March, and I certainly intend to be there.
"RAINY DAY PEOPLE" was and still is one of my all-time FAVS........of course Wreck of the Big Fitz and Carefree Highway are also at the top of the stack.
Gordon had that unique ability to close the gap between FOLK and COUNTRY. When he sings
he just commands your attention. The man does
have things to say that actually have some bearing, and he says it so well.

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Chip
Williams U-12 8X5

[Rich Paton]

Gordon is a straight-up honest hard working family man. And then there's all that great music, too.
"E. fitzgerald still spooks me a little when I hear it. Wind and water and a creaky hull,
Then just gone.