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Track Listing
1. I'm Not Saying / Ribbon Of Darkness
2. Song For a Winter's Night
3. Canadian Railroad Trilogy
4. Softly
5. For Lovin' Me / Did She Mention My Name
6. Steel Rail Blues
7. Wherefore and Why
8. Bitter Green
9. Early Morning Rain
10. Minstrel of the Dawn
11. Sundown
12. Beautiful
13. Summer Side of Life
14. Rainy Day People
15. Cotton Jenny
16. Don Quixote
17. Circle of Steel
18. Old Dan's Records
19. If You Could Read My Mind
20. Cold on the Shoulder
21. Carefree Highway
| Details | | Producer: | Joe Wissert, Lenny Waronker | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | AAD |
Album Notes
2 LPs on 1 CD; 1 song omitted from original 2-LP release ("Affair on 8th Avenue").
Personnel: Gordon Lightfoot (vocals, guitar); Terry Clements (guitar, mandolin); Red Shea (guitar); Pee Wee Charles, Ollie Strong (steel guitar); Larry Good (banjo); Bruce Good (autoharp); Charlie McCoy (harmonica); Hargus "Pig" Robbins, Nick DeCaro (piano); Rick Haynes, John Stockfish, Junior Huskey (bass guitar); Jim Gordon, Barry Keane, Kenny Buttrey (drums); Milt Holland (percussion).
Recording information: Eastern Studios, Toronto, Canada (1975).
Arrangers: Lee Holdridge; Randy Newman; Nick DeCaro; Bob Thompson.
This re-release of Gordon Lightfoot's first greatest hits album, originally published in the mid-1970s, contains a medley of his first hit songs, "I'm Not Saying" and "Ribbon of Darkness" (the latter made famous by Marty Robbins), as well as many other '60s and early-'70s classics like "Early Morning Rain," the brooding "Sundown," and "If You Could Read My Mind." Lightfoot's sure way with a lyrical narrative, coupled with his appealingly diffident baritone voice, combines pop charm with artistic integrity, and these tracks sound as fresh today as when they were first recorded.
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