Gordon Lightfoot

Gordon Lightfoot - The Complete Albums 1970-1998 (2019) Music

Posted by Rtax at May 10, 2023

Gordon Lightfoot - The Complete Albums 1970-1998 (2019)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 2.9 GB| MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 1.2 GB
8:41:33 | Folk Rock, Soft Rock, Country Rock | Label: Warner Music Group - X5 Music Group

One of the leading singer/songwriters of the 1960s and '70s, Gordon Lightfoot was Canada's most successful contemporary folk artist, establishing himself as an important songwriter in the mid-'60s and going on to become a major international recording star in the following decade. Lightfoot's songs are literate but down to earth, and deal with personal matters as well as global issues in a manner that's poetic yet accessible, and his rich, strong voice is a superb vehicle for his material, though his songs are versatile enough that many artists have enjoyed success with his tunes.

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Gordon Lightfoot - PBS Soundstage 1979 (live) (2022) Music

Posted by Rtax at Aug. 21, 2022

Gordon Lightfoot - PBS Soundstage 1979 (live) (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 243 MB
58:31 | Folk Rock | Label: Cult Legends

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Gordon Lightfoot - Summertime Dream (1976) US Jacksonville 1st Pressing - LP/FLAC In 24bit/96kHz Vinyl & HR

Posted by Fran Solo at Sept. 2, 2019

Essential: a masterpiece of country folk music
By the time Gordon Lightfoot released Summertime Dream in June of ’76, he was already being referred to as Canada’s greatest songwriter.

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Gordon Lightfoot - Summer Side Of Life (1971) Music

Posted by Designol at Oct. 3, 2023

Summer Side of Life is Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot's seventh album. It was released in 1971 on the Reprise Records Label. The album marked a radical departure from the sound Lightfoot had established on Sit Down Young Stranger in its use of drums and electronic instrumentation, to which he would later return in the second half of the decade. “Redwood Hill” contains elements of bluegrass music.

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Gordon Lightfoot - The Complete Singles 1970-1980 (Remastered) (2019) Music

Posted by Rtax at Dec. 18, 2024

Gordon Lightfoot - The Complete Singles 1970-1980 (Remastered) (2019)
EZCD Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log, scans) - 700 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 315 MB
2:02:14 | Folk Rock, Soft Rock, Country | Label: Real Gone Music / Rhino Custom Products

Gordon Lightfoot is a genre unto himself. Neither pop nor folk nor country nor rock, his music is unvarnished, direct, a statement from one heart to another (as Lightfoot has stated, “I like to keep things simple. I don’t like to make them complicated”). And this uncompromising stance has not only made him a legend (particularly in his native Canada, where he is a full-fledged icon), but also, somewhat paradoxically, brought him huge commercial success (which, ironically, has in turn caused some to discount his prodigious songwriting talent). For Gordon Lightfoot never set out to be a “popular” singer-songwriter. When he signed with Warner Bros. and began working with producer Lenny Waronker, Lightfoot thought of himself as an album artist, and, indeed, the Lightfoot-Waronker songwriter-producer partnership (with a brief period with Joe Wissert as producer) yielded nine charting albums—and that’s not even counting the compilations—highlighted by a #1 slot for 1974’s Sundown.

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Gordon Lightfoot - The Complete Singles 1970-1980 (Remastered) (2019) Music

Posted by Rtax at June 24, 2022

Gordon Lightfoot - The Complete Singles 1970-1980 (Remastered) (2019)
CD Rip | FLAC (tracks, no cue, no log) - 674 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 282 MB
2:02:14 | Full Scans - 31 MB | Folk Rock, Soft Rock, Country | Label: Real Gone Music / Rhino Custom Products

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Gordon Lightfoot - Summertime Dream (1976) [1990, Reissue] Music

Posted by BlondStyle at Nov. 4, 2023

"Summertime Dream" is Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot's 12th original album, released on the Reprise Records label in 1976. It peaked at #1 on the Canadian RPM national album chart, and #12 on the US Billboard pop chart. The album marked Lightfoot's commercial zenith in a remarkable period of popularity which had begun with the 1970 hit, "If You Could Read My Mind". He would never again achieve the same level of commercial success. The album shot to popularity on the back of the haunting ballad, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald", which told the story of the final hours of SS Edmund Fitzgerald which had sunk on Lake Superior in November 1975. The song remains popular to this day and has been credited with making the sinking of Edmund Fitzgerald the most famous maritime incident in the history of the Great Lakes. "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" reached #1 in Canada on November 20, 1976. In the US, it peaked at #2 on the pop chart and #50 on the country chart while "Race Among the Ruins" peaked at #65 on the pop chart.

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Gordon Lightfoot - The Best Of Gordon Lightfoot (1970) US Pressing - LP/FLAC In 24bit/96kHz Vinyl & HR

Posted by Fran Solo at Sept. 2, 2019

Gordon Meredith Lightfoot (born November 17, 1938) is a Canadian singer-songwriter who achieved international success in folk, folk-rock, and country music, and has been credited for helping define the folk-pop sound of the 1960s and 1970s.He has been referred to as Canada's greatest songwriter and internationally as a folk-rock legend.

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Gordon Lightfoot - Gord's Gold, Volume II (1988) Music

Posted by Designol at May 11, 2024

Gord's Gold, Vol. 2 is a compilation album released by Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot in 1988. Like the first Gord's Gold collection, Vol. 2 features re-recordings of earlier hits alongside the contemporary material. On Gord's Gold only the early songs that didn't match Lightfoot's 1970s sound (and whose original masters were owned by Lightfoot's former label, United Artists) were re-recorded. However, on Vol. 2 all tracks, apart from "Make Way (For the Lady)," "Ghosts of Cape Horn," Baby Step Back," and "It's Worth Believin'" were re-recorded. The album also contains the first appearance of "If It Should Please You," a previously unrecorded song that the band often performed in concert. Some tracks on Vol. 2 that had been released during the 1980s sound almost identical to their original recording. Additionally, the re-recorded tracks were recorded live in the studio.

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Gordon Lightfoot - Gord's Gold (1975) CD Release 1987 Music

Posted by Designol at May 8, 2024

Following the success of Sundown, Gordon Lightfoot continued his success by releasing a greatest-hits compilation. A double album (now a single CD), it contained the most popular songs from his Warner Bros. years on disc two, and he re-recorded many of his early songs for side one of record one. Although not as good, perhaps, as the originals, this did bring them up to date with his current sound style. Just about all the favorites are here (except "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," which hadn't been recorded yet when this set was put together and appears on Lightfoot's second volume of Gord's Gold), making this a good general overview of a strong talent. When Warner transferred the double LP to CD, "Affair on 8th Avenue" was dropped from the program to make the set fit on a single disc. Randy Newman arranged the orchestration on "Minstrel of the Dawn," by the way.

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