Gordon Lightfoot - Harmony - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Canada's Gordon Lightfoot parlayed his songwriting into a recording career, though this wasn't a case of a mediocre singer who happened to craft fine songs. His debut album, 'Lightfoot!', was recorded in New York in 1965 with guitarist David Rea and bassist Bill Lee providing the spare acoustic backing for Lightfoot's clear, confident vocals. The songs include such Lightfoot classics as Ribbon Of Darkness, For Lovin' Me, Home From The Forest, and Early Morning Rain. By the time of his second United Artists album, recorded in Nashville in 1967, the 'folk rock' influence was more evident in the production and Lightfoot's ability to write from his regional experience apparent in songs like Canadian Railroad Trilogy. Album Tracks 1. Rich Man's Spiritual 2. Long River 3. Way I Feel 4. For Lovin' You 5. First Time 6. Changes 7. Early Morning Rain 8. Steel Rail Blues 9. Sixteen Miles 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. Soflty 18. Crossroads 19. Minor Ballad 20. Go Go Around 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

2015 from the Canadian folk/country harmony trio. With the long-awaited Burn The Plan, The Good Lovelies are both fulfilling and defying their so-called musical destiny as a 'folk trio.' What makes this Burn The Plan special is that the band's considerable strengths - winsome songwriting, impeccable vocals, and triangulated charisma - don't tell the full story. There's a new spirit of adventurousness that gives Burn The Plan an extra spark; the album is permeated with textures and tones from musical worlds away. Album Tracks 1. In the Morning 2. Four O'Clock 3. Waiting for You 4. Last Night 5. Watching TV 6. Open Windows 7. The Doe 8. Old Fashioned Love 9. Into the Dark 10. Broken Hearted

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 Blue 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 of Spin Spin. Album Tracks 1. In a Windowpane 2. Lost Children 3. Leaves of Grass 4. I'm Not Sayin'/Ribbon of Darkness 5. Apology 6. Bitter Green 7. Ballad of Yarmouth Castle 8. Softly 9. Boss Man 10. Pussy Willows, Cat-Tails 11. Canadian Railroad Trilogy 12. Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues 13. Movin' Pt.1 (Bonus) 14. I'll Be Alright (Bonus) 15. Spin Spin (Bonus) 16. Movin' Pt. 2 (Bonus)