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)

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.

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

Posted by Rtax at Aug. 21, 2022
Gordon Lightfoot - PBS Soundstage 1979 (live) (2022)

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

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.

Gordon Lightfoot - Songbook (Remastered) (1999)  Music

Posted by Rtax at July 1, 2022
Gordon Lightfoot - Songbook (Remastered) (1999)

Gordon Lightfoot - Songbook (Remastered) (1999)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 1.7 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 700 MB
5:03:29 | Folk Rock, Soft Rock, Country Rock | Label: Rhino

An institution north of the Canadian border, Gordon Lightfoot is practically the living embodiment of what many think of as the national character. Stoic, weathered, and hard-working, Lightfoot practices a husky brand of folk music that's as timeless as the Canadian landscape that seems to loom above his most memorable melodies. This overdue four-disc retrospective stretches all the way back to 1962, when the Ontario-born performer tried to make it in Nashville, up to 1998; 16 previously unreleased tracks and another 17 previously available only on vinyl add meat to its frame. Yes, the familiar tunes are here–"For Lovin' Me" (a hit for both Peter, Paul & Mary and Ian & Sylvia), "Early Morning Rain," "If You Could Read My Mind," "Sundown," "Carefree Highway," and the oft-parodied but truly evocative "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald." But Songbook, like the artist it commemorates, isn't defined by radio staples. It's about the splendid expanse that is the decades-long career of a true musical workhorse. –Steven Stolder

Gordon Lightfoot - Solo (2020)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Sept. 12, 2022
Gordon Lightfoot - Solo (2020)

Gordon Lightfoot - Solo (2020)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 181 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 78 Mb | 00:33:57
Folk, Singer-Songwriter | Label: Early Morning Productions, Warner Records

Gordon Lightfoot’s best songs have never been overly complicated things. Save for some light backing flourishes, classics such as “Sundown,” “Carefree Highway,” and “If You Could Read My Mind” are little more than his poetry and philosophical wanderings on full display. With Solo, a suite of stripped-back vocal-and-acoustic-guitar songs, there’s even less for the legendary Canadian singer-songwriter to hide behind. While it’s his first newly heard music since 2004’s Harmony, the writing actually predates that album. Lightfoot happened upon a cache of material he’d first recorded in 2001 and 2002, just prior to suffering an aortic aneurism, while cleaning his Toronto home. He took the demos and attempted to arrange them for his band, but ultimately decided to redo them with almost no additional production. The result has a particularly live-sounding immediacy and intimacy, which suits the subject matter, whether it’s the prescient “E-Motion” (which explores oversharing in the internet age), the wistful opener “Oh So Sweet,” or the reflective “Return Into Dust.” At age 81 and 21 albums in, though, Lightfoot is most revealing on the closer, “Why Not Give It a Try,” a track about keeping life fresh and challenging, and never slowing down.

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

Posted by BlondStyle at Nov. 4, 2023
Gordon Lightfoot - Summertime Dream (1976) [1990, Reissue]

Gordon Lightfoot - Summertime Dream (1976) [1990, Reissue]
Rock, Country-Folk, Singer/Songwriter | EAC Rip | FLAC, Tracks+CUE+LOG+Scans (JPEG) | 37:28 | 223,81 Mb
Label: Reprise Records (Canada) | Cat.# CD 2246 | Released: 1990 (1976)

"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.

Gordon Lightfoot - Complete Greatest Hits (2002)  Music

Posted by Rtax at Jan. 28, 2022
Gordon Lightfoot - Complete Greatest Hits (2002)

Gordon Lightfoot - Complete Greatest Hits (2002)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log, scans) - 464 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 193 MB
1:14:51 | Folk Rock | Label: Rhino/Warner Bros.

The most comprehensive single CD collection by this treasured troubadour. These 1965 1987 United Artists, Reprise and Warner Bros. tracks include his Top 10 hits Sundown; If You Could Read My Mind; The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald; Carefree Highway , and 14 more!

Gordon Lightfoot - Summer Side Of Life (1971)  Music

Posted by Designol at Oct. 3, 2023
Gordon Lightfoot - Summer Side Of Life (1971)

Gordon Lightfoot - Summer Side Of Life (1971)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 233 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 89 Mb | Scans ~ 47 Mb
Label: Reprise Records | # 9362-45686-2 | Time: 00:38:50
Singer-Songwriter, Country Folk, Folk Rock

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.

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

Posted by Designol at March 13, 2023
Gordon Lightfoot - Gord's Gold, Volume II (1988)

Gordon Lightfoot - Gord's Gold, Volume II (1988)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 381 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 150 Mb | Scans ~ 78 Mb
Label: Warner Bros. Records | # 9 25784-2 | Time: 01:05:46
Folk-Rock, Country Folk, Country, Singer-Songwriter

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.

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

Posted by Designol at March 10, 2023
Gordon Lightfoot - Gord's Gold (1975) CD Release 1987

Gordon Lightfoot - Gord's Gold (1975) CD Release 1987
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 424 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 165 Mb | Scans ~ 96 Mb
Folk-Rock, Country Folk, Country | Label: Reprise Records | # 2237-2 | Time: 01:12:01

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.
Gordon Lightfoot - 1962…. also featuring the Two Tones (2022)

Gordon Lightfoot - 1962…. also featuring the Two Tones (2022)
MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 157 MB
1:05:47 | Folk Rock | Label: Jasmine

Canada's most successful contemporary Folk artist, GORDON LIGHTFOOT, is frequently referred to as that nation's greatest songwriter
However, once he'd finally 'made it' 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.