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Gordon Lightfoot: Lightfoot! - The Way I Feel (CD)

1-CD with 36-page booklet, 26 tracks. Playing time approx. 78 mns.

Canada's Gordon Lightfoot parlayed his songwriting into a recording career, though this wasn't a case of a mediocre singer who happened to craft fine songs. His debut album, "Lightfoot!", was recorded in New York in 1965 with guitarist David Rea and bassist Bill Lee providing the spare acoustic backing for Lightfoot's clear, confident vocals. The songs include such Lightfoot classics as Ribbon Of Darkness, For Lovin' Me, Home From The Forest, and Early Morning Rain. By the time of his second United Artists album, recorded in Nashville in 1967, the 'folk rock' influence was more evident in the production and Lightfoot's ability to write from his regional experience apparent in songs like Canadian Railroad Trilogy. This 26-song collection comprises the entirety of Lightfoot's first two albums.

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Lightfoot, Gordon - Lightfoot! - The Way I Feel (CD) CD 1
01 Rich Man's Spiritual Gordon Lightfoot
02 Long River Gordon Lightfoot
03 The Way I Feel Gordon Lightfoot
04 For Lovin' You Gordon Lightfoot
05 The First Time Gordon Lightfoot
06 Changes Gordon Lightfoot
07 Early Morning Rain Gordon Lightfoot
08 Steel Rail Blues Gordon Lightfoot
09 Sixteen Miles Gordon Lightfoot
10 I'm Not Sayin' Gordon Lightfoot
11 Pride Of Man Gordon Lightfoot
12 Ribbon Of Darkness Gordon Lightfoot
13 Oh, Linda Gordon Lightfoot
14 Peaceful Waters Gordon Lightfoot
15 Walls Gordon Lightfoot
16 If You Got It Gordon Lightfoot
17 Softly Gordon Lightfoot
18 Crossroads Gordon Lightfoot
19 A Minor Ballad Gordon Lightfoot
20 Go Go Around Gordon Lightfoot
21 Rosanna Gordon Lightfoot
22 Home From The Forest Gordon Lightfoot
23 I'll Be Alright Gordon Lightfoot
24 Song For A Winter's Night Gordon Lightfoot
25 Canadian Railroad Trilogy Gordon Lightfoot
26 The Way I Feel Gordon Lightfoot
Gordon Lightfoot GORDON LIGHTFOOT OBITUARY   No voice gracing the 1970s... more
"Gordon Lightfoot"

Gordon Lightfoot

GORDON LIGHTFOOT OBITUARY

 

No voice gracing the 1970s radio airwaves sounded as gloriously, unabashedly Canadian as that of Gordon Lightfoot. His flinty phrasing and rich, resonant timbre veritably screamed north-of-the-border origins, and his brilliant songwriting reflected his native environs at the same time it related universal truths.

 

Lightfoot, who passed away Mai 1st at age 84 in 2023, was a genuine folk troubadour whose material effortlessly crossed idiomatic boundaries. Born November 17, 1938 in Orrilia, Ontario, Lightfoot sang in his church choir as a child, soon graduating to performing on the radio. At 12, he sang at Toronto’s prestigious Massey Hall. He learned to play guitar in high school, then journeyed to Hollywood in 1958 to study at Westlake College of Music. “I left the small town that I lived in in central Ontario, and I went because of a ‘Downbeat’ magazine ad,” said Lightfoot. Back in Toronto in 1960, he sang with The Swinging Eight on CBC-TV’s ‘Country Hoedown.’ 

Lightfoot teamed with fellow folkie Terry Whelan as The Two Tones, the duo cutting a 1962 album, ‘At the Village Corner.’ But the singer’s first two solo singles that same year, produced by Louis Innis and Art Snider in Nashville for the Canadian Chateau label and picked up in the U.S. by ABC-Paramount, were much more pop-slanted. Daisy-Doo and Negotiations were closer to rock and roll, while the ballad (Remember Me) I’m The One was a hit in Toronto (the 45s were issued under the slightly truncated handle of Gord Lightfoot).

 

After spending much of 1963 in Europe and England (where he hosted BBC-TV’s ‘Country and Western Show’), Lightfoot returned to Canada, his compositional prowess growing by leaps and bounds. In 1965, Canadian folk duo Ian & Sylvia cut his Early Mornin’ Rain as the title song to their fourth album for Vanguard. The seeds were planted for its creation during Lightfoot’s stint in L.A

“When a car was available to take a drive out to the airport take off at LAX was quite thrilling. I remember a particularly rainy morning--which you can have in January in L.A.--and watching them, and having the vision come back to me perhaps 10 years later while minding my very first kid, while my wife was out shopping, back to the airstrip at LAX and a feeling of homesickness that I had at that time,” he said. “Because I was homesick when I went out there.”

Ian & Sylvia also included another Lightfoot classic, For Lovin’  Me, on that same album, and Marty Robbins scored a C&W chart-topper that year with his Ribbon Of Darkness. “I connected with Ian & Sylvia with some songs that I'd been writing, and they chose a couple of the songs they thought were very nice, and put them in their repertoire and recorded them. From there, they went to Peter, Paul & Mary, which took me into an American management situation,” he said. “So I was able to get a manager there down in the states. That was big news up here in Canada.”

Not just any manager, either: Albert Grossman also handled Bob Dylan as well as Peter, Paul & Mary. His business partner, John Court, produced the singer’s 1966 United Artists debut album ‘Lightfoot!,’ containing the three songs that had served Ian & Sylvia and Robbins so well (Peter, Paul & Mary had hits with Early Mornin’ Rain and For Lovin’ Me that same year; Waylon Jennings crashed the C&W Top Ten with the latter in 1966). Court produced Lightfoot’s UA encore set ‘The Way I Feel’ the following year before giving way to John Simon for Lightfoot’s ’68 album ‘Did She Mention My Name?’ and Elliot Mazer for ‘Back Here On Earth.’ “I was making an album a year then,” he noted.

 Lightfoot’s prolific songwriting skills were serving him well. “I was also in a kinetic energy to write more and more,” said Lightfoot. “I had a young family to support at that time, and that was coming into the equation. I just wrote and wrote and wrote. I just kept on writing.”

After the ‘69 live set ‘Sunday Concert,’ cut live at Massey Hall, Lightfoot left UA and signed with Warner Bros.’ Reprise label, where he really hit the bigtime. If You Could Read My Mind, produced by Lenny Waronker and Joe Wissert, came out in late 1970 and was Lightfoot’s first U.S. pop smash. He topped the pop hit parade and went gold in 1974 with his smoldering, blues-kissed Sundown. Was he surprised at its massive success? “I was indeed, though we had thought it might do something at the time,” said Lightfoot. “It got me further up in the pecking order.”

Carefree Highway was another major hit for Lightfoot later that year.

The rousing true-life nautical saga The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald was Lightfoot’s last blockbuster in 1976. “If I'm going to say anything, I like to try to keep it accurate, or in chronological order,” he said. “That was in chronological order. It has some conjecture. It has one point of conjecture about midway through about the midships--that's whether the old cook really did poke his head out on the deck, whether or not a hatch cover failed, whether or not they ground it out earlier on. There are all kinds of Coast Guard reports on the whole event. It's a song that we play with great gusto onstage, because it is that kind of song.”

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Tracklist
Lightfoot, Gordon - Lightfoot! - The Way I Feel (CD) CD 1
01 Rich Man's Spiritual
02 Long River
03 The Way I Feel
04 For Lovin' You
05 The First Time
06 Changes
07 Early Morning Rain
08 Steel Rail Blues
09 Sixteen Miles
10 I'm Not Sayin'
11 Pride Of Man
12 Ribbon Of Darkness
13 Oh, Linda
14 Peaceful Waters
15 Walls
16 If You Got It
17 Softly
18 Crossroads
19 A Minor Ballad
20 Go Go Around
21 Rosanna
22 Home From The Forest
23 I'll Be Alright
24 Song For A Winter's Night
25 Canadian Railroad Trilogy
26 The Way I Feel