Artist: Gordon Lightfoot
Genre(s):
Retro
Other
Discography:
36 All-Time Favorites (CD 3)
Year: 1993
Tracks: 12
36 All-Time Favorites (CD 1)
Year: 1993
Tracks: 12
Original Lightfoot (CD 3)
Year: 1992
Tracks: 12
Original Lightfoot (CD 2)
Year: 1992
Tracks: 23
Original Lightfoot (CD 1)
Year: 1992
Tracks: 25
Don Quixote
Year: 1972
Tracks: 11
The Complete Greatest Hits
Year:
Tracks: 1
Songbook (CD 4)
Year:
Tracks: 21
Songbook (CD 3)
Year:
Tracks: 21
Songbook (CD 2)
Year:
Tracks: 22
Songbook (CD 1)
Year:
Tracks: 24
Harmony
Year:
Tracks: 11
Canadian Gordon Lightfoot low gear began to gain recognition in the mid-'60s as a songwriter when his compositions "For Lovin' Me" and "Early Morning Rain" became hits for Peter, Paul & Mary, and Marty Robbins topped the nation charts with "Ribbon of Darkness." Lightfoot's own trend was unpretentious, his neat folk music arrangements topped by a blue burr of a voice. His albums began to appear in 1966, only it was non until the start of the '70s that he became a big success as a performer, grading in 1970 with Sit Down Young Stranger, which contained his attain "If You Could Read My Mind," a song with a typically flow melodious line and mildly poetical lyrics.
Thenceforth, the offset half of the '70s were his. Lightfoot impinge on a peak in 1974 with Sunset, which went to number 1, as did the title song when released on a single. Though he had developed a dateless style, Lightfoot was caught by the popular decline of folk-based music in the latter half of the 1970s, and has performed and recorded less ofttimes since, sometimes trying to conform to perceived commercial-grade trends without success. But concert appearances in the other '90s confirmed that he remained an engaging performing artist and that his catalogue of original songs was concentrated to twin. A Painter Passing Through was released in 1998.
In 2002 Lightfoot suffered a near-fatal abdominal haemorrhage spell playacting in his hometown of Orillia, Ontario, causing him to cancel his strike enlistment. When he awoke from a coma weeks later, the coherent artist immediately began pick tracks from the 18 demos he'd recorded in 2001 and urged his band to flesh them out in the studio. Harmony, his 20th album, was released in May of
