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Gordon Lightfoot - United Artists Collection [2 CD Set] Audio CD

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Title: United Artists Collection [2 CD Set]
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Release Date: 1993-10-05
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Rich Man's Spiritual 2: Long River 3: Way I Feel [Version 1] 4: For Lovin' Me 5: First Time Ever I Saw Your Face 6: Changes 7: Early Morning Rain 8: Steel Rail Blues 9: Sixteen Miles (To Seven Lakes) 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: Minor Ballad 20: Go-Go Round 21: Rosanna 22: Home from the Forest 23: I'll Be Alright 24: Song for a Winter's Night 25: Canadian Railroad Trilogy 26: Way I Feel [Version 2] 27: Wherefor and Why 28: Last Time I Saw Her 29: Black Day in July 30: May I 31: Magnificent Outpouring 32: Does Your Mother Know 33: Mountains and Maryann 34: Pussywillows, Cat-Tails 35: I Want to Hear It from You 36: Something Very Special 37: Boss Man 38: Did She Mention My Name 39: Long Way Back Home 40: Unsettled Ways 41: Long Thin Dawn 42: Bitter Green 43: Circle Is Small 44: Marie Christine 45: Cold Hands from New York 46: Affair on 8th Avenue 47: Don't Beat Me Down 48: Gypsy 49: If I Could

the very best of gord
I have been a hard core Gord fan since the vinyl 60's and have seen and heard him many times in concert. I have had this CD set for decades and still play it all the time. His song Home From The Forest always brings tears as it is the near story of my long dead brother(I have to be very careful of when I play it for that reason). Almost all of my Gord faves are not his biggest sellers, as I love the nuance he places at exactly the correct lyrical point in some songs, nuances that others may not appreciate or even hear and thus do not make these songs his biggest popular sellers.

Gord is a distant relative on my maternal grandmother's side so I am partial to him for that, but I think am also very realistic and pragmatic in my opinion of him as the most sensitive songwriter this side of Kris Kristofferson(Me
And Bobby McGee;Sunday Morning Coming Down), both of whom have a special songwriting style and talent that touches places in our hearts that most others can only dream of doing. And Gord's voice, unlike Kris', with a timbre, vibrato and breath control to die for, is not to be compared to anyone but Joan Baez in the folk singing community for pure vocal talent.

Gord, as with all songwriting geniuses, is very prolific, and as someone once said about the poet Emily Dickinson, some of what she wrote is not great poetry but most of it is as good or better than any other poet's body of work. I feel just that way about Gord's early work here where it is so obvious that he is absolutely in his prime of voice and songwriting, and most of his songs move my heart as few others can(especially in disc 1). For that, I am so grateful for and thankful to him for the special place he has made in my heart that I visit so often. As I write this I am listening to the oblique poetic beauty of his song Changes, and realize well as I listen that this collection tells the early story of the pure acoustic Gord before American celebrity got its grip into him and persuaded him to alter his music more toward mass popular tastes, a move which did not make him nearly as appealing to me later as he was in his earlier work shown in this vibrant package. This one is the very best of all.


Gordon Lightfoot-United Artists series album
I love the relaxing music--his voice is mesmerizing. Great album-very good selection of his best songs.


Excellent Lightfoot set

I own a lot of albums by him but this UA set offers the old stuff in the original versions where for instance Gord's Gold carries the same material in new, re-recorded versions. This is a great set for any Gordon Lightfoot fan. To be honest : I prefer the original tracks but I'm glad to have both and play them in turn.
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I think I've had it since it first came out. This is one of my all-time favorite CD's. Finally, it is getting worn and some songs skip. I was so grateful that I was still able to order it and start with a fresh, new CD.


Spectacular - One of the great bargains on Amazon!
I can not come up with enough words to describe how wonderful this album is. . and not just for the typical songs that we all know like Early Morning Rain. Songs like Home From the Forest, Sixteen Miles and Magnificent Outpouring just to name a few, are full of tremendous imagery and emotion. This is a MUST HAVE if you are a serious Lightfoot listener.


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