CD Music Review: Gordon Lightfoot: Gord's Gold

Gordon Lightfoot" Gord's Gold, produced by Lenny Waronker and Joe Wissert, Warner Brothers, 1975.

This album includes many of Gordon Lightfoot's favorites, and his distinctive sound and voice.  I enjoy the Canadian Railroad Trilogy, Early Morning Rain, Sundown, Beautiful, Rainy Day People, If You Could Read My Mind and Carefree Highway.  In If You Could Read My Mind he is longing for something that he has lost in his relationship, "I don't know where we went wrong but the feelings gone and I just can't get it back."  Lightfoot has a very distinctive voice and this CD brings bak memories of listening to the radio when I was young.

GORDON LIGHTFOOT IN CONCERT 1972

This is a 1972 concert of Gordon Lightfoot.  Lightfoot is considered the best song writer ever from Canada and achieved international fame with his mellow voice.  It includes Lightfoot's early style.  He sings country, folk, light rock, and sometimes even has a jazzy feel to some of his songs.  This set includes "If you Could Read my Mind."  This song includes his lament about a relationship gone bad:
I never thought I could feel this way 
And I got to say that I just don't get it.
I don't know where we went wrong 
But the feelings gone 
And I just can't get it back.

"Talking in your Sleep" shows relationships in a better light. 
 "When you close your eyes and go to sleep
And it's down to the sound of a heartbeat
I can hear the things that you're dreaming about
When you open up your heart and the truth comes out"
He also sings "Bobby McGee."  One of his early success, "Early Morning rain" is also included.