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Canada's most successful contemporary Folk artist, Gordon Lightfoot, is frequently referred to as that nation's greatest songwriter. However, once he'd finally Inchmade itInch in the late 1960s, he immediately set about trying to distance himself from much of his early recording career. Indeed, when a compilation LP titled Early Lightfoot - comprising his first solo recordings, from a pair of Spring 1962 Nashville sessions - appeared in 1971, he is rumoured to have bought up all known copies and destroyed them. The story may of course be apocryphal, but those rare-as-hens-teeth recordings are included herein in their entirety, augmented by a 45rpm and live album which Lightfoot had recorded a couple of months earlier, with singer/guitarist Terry Whelan, in a short-lived Folk duo called The Two Tones. This material is all exceptionally rare, and has never previously been thus compiled; the majority of these sides are impossible to find elsewhere on CD Album Tracks 1. Gord Lightfoot - (Remember Me) I'm the One 2. Gord Lightfoot - Daisy-Doo 3. Gord Lightfoot - Negotiations 4. Gord Lightfoot - It's Too Late, He Wins 5. Gord Lightfoot - Adios, Adios (I'll Meet You in Michoacan) 6. Gord Lightfoot - Is My Baby Blue Tonight 7. Gordie Lightfoot - Day Before Yesterday 8. Gordie Lightfoot - Take Care of Yourself 9. Gordon Lightfoot - Sleep Little Jane 10. Gordon Lightfoot - This Is My Song 11. Gordon Lightfoot - Long Haired Woman 12. The Two Tones - Lessons in Love 13. The Two Tones - Sweet Polly 14. The Two Tones - Station Breaks / Safety Checks 15. The Two Tones - We Come Here to Sing 16. The Two Tones - Fast Freight 17. The Two Tones - the Fox 18. The Two Tones - Dark As a Dungeon 19. The Two Tones - Sinnerman 20. The Two Tones - This Is My Song 21. The Two Tones - Kilgarry Mountain 22. The Two Tones - Calypso Baby 23. The Two
