Lightfoot's commercial peak came with this album, which topped the US charts, containing both the #1 title song and the Top 10 hit "Carefree Highway." But songs like "Somewhere U.S.A." and "High and Dry" are textured, catchy folk/rock on a par with the better known tunes.
I'm very aware that this is far from a creative choice when it comes to Gordon Lightfoot's music, but as much as I'd love to be hipper to things than I am, I'm not. My exposure to Lightfoot came as a kid, with my father's copy of Sundown. I know the big, popular tunes of his, and that's it.So I'm as guilty as anyone else when I say that Gordon Lightfoot deserves a lot more attention than he g...
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Those of you who read my LJ know that I post a song of the day every day (well, almost every day), and that January's theme is "Songs That Make Me Happy". After I posted today's song, I heard this one while I was getting ready for work, and it just set the morning up perfectly. It's now a song that makes me happy, too.Oh, and another thing that makes today great. I went to McDonald's for bre...
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I'm very aware that this is far from a creative choice when it comes to Gordon Lightfoot's music, but as much as I'd love to be hipper to things than I am, I'm not. My exposure to Lightfoot came as a kid, with my father's copy of Sundown. I know the big, popular tunes of his, and that's it.So I'm as guilty as anyone else when I say that Gordon Lightfoot deserves a lot more attention than he g...
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1975 and five years old. Sitting in the back seat of the big green Plymouth Fury. My Dad sets the radio and I am introduced to some of the earliest sounds. At this stage it's just music. I don't even know if I like it. Something about Delta Dawn and Flowers On The Wall. It all blurs this many years later, but I can still remember hearing Sundown by Gordon Lightfoot. My Dad loved the Wreck...
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| Title | Lyrics | Buy |
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| 1 Somewhere U.S.A. |
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| 2 High and Dry |
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| 3 Seven Island Suite |
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| 4 Circle of Steel |
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| 5 Is There Anyone Home |
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| 6 The Watchman's Gone |
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| 7 Sundown |
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| 8 Carefree Highway |
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| 9 The List |
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| 10 Too Late for Prayin' |
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