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Gordon Lightfoot: Solo (CD)

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Gordon Lightfoot is Canada's most celebrated songwriter and an international folk legend. Now, after more than a decade, he is announcing his new album Solo - the first studio album with new songs since Harmony was released in 2004. It shows Lightfoot in the studio, alone with his guitar.

Gordon Lightfoot is Canada's greatest singer/songwriter. He was the genre-defining personality in the folk-pop scene of the 1960s and 1970s. He has received the Governor General's Performing Arts Award, Canada's greatest honor in the arts, and was named Companion of the Order of Canada. His songs have become an integral part of the Canadian musical landscape, including "Sundown", "The Wreck Of Edmund Fitzgerald" and "If You Could Read My Mind".

Lightfoot has been included in the Songwriter's Hall Of Fame and on Canada's Walk Of Fame. His songs have been played and recorded by artists like Elvis Presley, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Barbra Streisand, Eric Clapton and The Tragically Hip.


"His often thoughtful lyrics are partly pure poetry, he also plays a good guitar - and so there is an exciting song kaleidoscope. Lightfoot, one of the most important Canadian singer/songwriters, just can." (Good Times, April / May 2020)

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Lightfoot, Gordon - Solo (CD) CD 1
01Oh So SweetGordon Lightfoot
02E-MotionGordon Lightfoot
03Better OffGordon Lightfoot
04Return Into DustGordon Lightfoot
05Do You Walk, Do You TalkGordon Lightfoot
06Just a Little BitGordon Lightfoot
07Easy FloGordon Lightfoot
08DreamdriftGordon Lightfoot
09The Laughter We SeekGordon Lightfoot
10Why Not Give It a TryGordon 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-DooandNegotiationswere closer to rock and roll, while the ballad(Remember Me) I’m The Onewas 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 hisEarly Mornin’ Rainas 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 hisRibbon 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 withEarly Mornin’ RainandFor Lovin’ Methat 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-kissedSundown. 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 Highwaywas another major hit for Lightfoot later that year.

The rousing true-life nautical sagaThe Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgeraldwas 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 - Solo (CD) CD 1
01 Oh So Sweet
02 E-Motion
03 Better Off
04 Return Into Dust
05 Do You Walk, Do You Talk
06 Just a Little Bit
07 Easy Flo
08 Dreamdrift
09 The Laughter We Seek
10 Why Not Give It a Try