Gordon Lightfoot - Gord's Gold (2LP)
COMPILATION
Gordon Lightfoot - Vocals and Guitar [click here to see more vinyl featuring Gordon Lightfoot]
Guitar: Red Shea, Terry Clements
Bass: Rick Haynes, John Stockfish
Steel Guitar: Pee Wee Charles (Ed Ringwald)
Drums: Jim Gordon, Barry Keane
String arrangements: Nick DeCaro and Lee Holdridge
2 LP, Gatefold jacket
Original analog Master tape : YES
Heavy Press : 180g
Record color : black
Speed : 33RPM
Size : 12”
Stereo
Studio
Record Press : Rhino Records
Label : Friday Music
Original Label : Reprise Records
Recorded at Eastern Sound September 1969-July 1975, by Lee Herschberg
Produced by Lenny Waronker
Remastered by Joe Reagoso
Originally released in 1975
Reissued in 2014
Tracks:
Side A:
- I'm Not Sayin' / Ribbon of Darkness
- Song For a Winter's Night
- Canadian Railroad Trilogy
- Softly
- For Lovin' Me / Did She Mention My Name
Side B:
- Affair On 8th Avenue
- Steel Rail Blues
- Wherefore And Why
- Bitter Green
- Early Morning Rain
Side C:
- Minstrel of the Dawn
- Sundown
- Beautiful
- Summer Side of Life
- Rainy Day People
- Cotton Jenny
Side D:
- Don Quixote
- Circle of Steel
- Old Dan's Records
- If You Could Read My Mind
- Cold On the Shoulder
- Carefree Highway
Reviews :
"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." AllMusic Review by James Chrispell
Ratings :
AllMusic : 3,5 / 5 , Discogs : 4,08 / 5