Lightfoot!/The Way I Feel

Lightfoot!/The Way I Feel Artist: Gordon Lightfoot
Label: Bear Family
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


EAN: 4000127155764
ASIN: B0000282WO


Release Date: 1991-11-07

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  1. Listen To Gordon Lightfoot
  2. Overlooked Folk and Bluegrass

Tracks:

  1. Rich Man's Spiritual
  2. Long River
  3. The Way I Feel
  4. For Lovin' You
  5. The 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. Softly
  18. Crossroads
  19. A 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. The Way I Feel

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Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars Get "The United Artist Collection" instead........2007-02-11

Instead of getting this double album, get the double CD, "The United Artist Collection" by Gordon Lightfoot instead. The reason, it has the first four albums on 2 CDs ("Lightfoot!", "The Way I Feel", "Did She Mention My Name", and "Back Here On Earth").

5 out of 5 stars I love gord, but..........2006-09-02

I love lightfoot, and this early music is some of his best, but check out the United Artists Collection, a two cd set with the same songs. it's 8 bucks, this one is 23. Go figure...

5 out of 5 stars Classics From The Poet-Laurette Of The Great North.......2006-02-13

This CD contains Gordon Lightfoot's first two albums, 'Lightfoot', released in '66 and 'The Way I Feel' in '67. These -26 tracks- of now classic tunes began the long and illustrious career of Canada's favorite musical native son and undisputed poet-laurette of our neighbor to the Great North.

Tunes like; 'Early Morning Rain', 'For Lovin' You', 'I'm Not Sayin' and 'Canadian Railroad Trilogy' (what I like to consider the unofficial National Anthem of Canada) will echo within your heart and mind long after the music stops. Classic Lightfoot!

5 out of 5 stars To begin at the beginning.......2002-06-03

Here are Gordon Lightfoot's first two UA albums, packaged together on one CD. By the time the first, Lightfoot!, was released, he had already gained a considerable amount of professional respect as a writer--artists such as Marty Robbins and Peter, Paul & Mary had taken Lightfoot compositions into the charts. Lightfoot! is the most pure folk-sounding album he ever issued, with a very stripped-down sound: rhythm guitar, vocal, lead guitar, and upright bass, with nary an overdub in sight. There are a number of songs on Lightfoot! ("Early Morning Rain," "Ribbon of Darkness," "I'm Not Sayin'," "For Loving Me," "Steel Rail Blues") that are now considered to be Lightfoot classics--it's interesting now to hear the original arrangements. Lightfoot was in his mid-20s when this album was released, and you can hear the youthful optimism in his voice.

The Way I Feel begins to more clearly define the Lightfoot sound and his future musical direction: still folk oriented, but with a larger influence of both country and pop. By this time, he had established his first regular touring band and on this album you'll hear some outstanding lead guitar work by the ever-innovative Red Shea, plus very rhythmic bass work on the part of John Stockfish. Nashville sessions musicians Kenney Buttrey (drums) and Charley McCoy also appear on The Way I Feel. (Until 1976, Lightfoot did not use a drummer as part of the touring band, and thus both Stockfish, and his successor, Rick Haynes, have a more rhythmic approach to bass playing than what you'll normally hear in an acoustic setting, laying down a very solid bottom beat.)

More Lightfoot classics appear on "The Way I Feel", such as "Song For a Winter's Night" (recently covered by Sarah Maclachan), "Softly," and the song that propelled him from popular artist to Canadian icon: "Canadian Railroad Trilogy." In addition, there is a re-make of the song "The Way I Feel," which in fact made its first appearance on Lightoot!.

Having these first two UA albums on one compact disc affords the listener the opportunity to hear Lightfoot at the threshold of a remarkable career which continues to this day. The first album served notice that this was an extremely talented songwriter making his debut album; the second, which sounds more confident, mature and self-assured, seems to be emphatically saying that he had not only arrived but he was going to stay around for a long, long time.

And so he has.

This CD includes a sizeable booklet with a good essay by Richard Flohill, lots of photographs, and complete lyrics.

5 out of 5 stars This is the best of Lightfoot.......2001-08-29

I have a theory that the best albums of singer/songwriters are their earliest, usually the first four or five. These are Lightfoot's first two and are easily the best of what he does. I find the later music repetitious and I hate it when he adds strings. If you don't know Lightfoot, start here.

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