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Gordon Lightfoot: Sunday Concert, Plus (CD)

1-CD with 36-page booklet, 16 tracks. Playing time approx. 54 mns.

Gordon Lightfoot's Massey Hall concerts in Toronto are a 30-year tradition. The March 30th, 1969 concert not only allowed the singer/songwriter an opportunity to perform songs such as Ribbon Of Darkness that were quickly becoming standards for an adoring hometown crowd, it also allowed him to debut ambitious unrecorded songs like Ballad of Yarmouth Castle, an apparent precursor of his 1976 hit,
The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald. Essentially solo except for guitarist Red Shea and bassist Rick Haynes at the concert, this 11-song acoustic performance is augmented by four electric studio recordings,
circa 1968, including a cover of Dylan's Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues. This 16-track CD completes Bear Family's reissue of Lightfoot's complete 1965-1969 five-album output for United Artists, and includes such enduring Lightfoot classics as Canadian Railroad Trilogy, Ribbon of Darkness and the Nashville version ofSpin Spin.

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Lightfoot, Gordon - Sunday Concert, Plus (CD) CD 1
01In A WindowpaneGordon Lightfoot
02The Lost ChildrenGordon Lightfoot
03Leaves Of GrassGordon Lightfoot
04I'm Not Sayin'/Ribbon Of DarknessGordon Lightfoot
05ApologyGordon Lightfoot
06Bitter GreenGordon Lightfoot
07Ballad Of Yarmouth CastleGordon Lightfoot
08SoftlyGordon Lightfoot
09Boss ManGordon Lightfoot
10Pussy Willows, Cat-TailsGordon Lightfoot
11Canadian Railroad TrilogyGordon Lightfoot
12Just Like Tom Thumb's BluesGordon Lightfoot
13Movin' (1)Gordon Lightfoot
14I'll Be AlrightGordon Lightfoot
15Spin, Spin (Nashville version, tk 8)Gordon Lightfoot
16Movin' (2)Gordon Lightfoot
Gordon Lightfoot GORDON LIGHTFOOT OBITUARY   No voice gracing the 1970s... more
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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 - Sunday Concert, Plus (CD) CD 1
01 In A Windowpane
02 The Lost Children
03 Leaves Of Grass
04 I'm Not Sayin'/Ribbon Of Darkness
05 Apology
06 Bitter Green
07 Ballad Of Yarmouth Castle
08 Softly
09 Boss Man
10 Pussy Willows, Cat-Tails
11 Canadian Railroad Trilogy
12 Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
13 Movin' (1)
14 I'll Be Alright
15 Spin, Spin (Nashville version, tk 8)
16 Movin' (2)