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(60 customer reviews) 60 of 61 people found the following review helpful
A Bargain Classic,
June 19, 2000 Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?)
This review is from: The United Artists Collection (Audio CD)
Even if you purchased Gordon Lightfoot's sprawling 4-disc Songbook box set like I did (which includes 17 of these songs), you will want to add this to your collection too. This set collects Lightfoot's four United Artists albums in their entirety beginning with his 1966 debut.You get classic Lightfoot songs like "For Lovin' Me," "Early Mornin' Rain," "Canadian Railroad Trilogy" and "Did She Mention My Name." Also, the box set includes a live medley of "I'm Not Sayin'/Ribbon of Darkness" from the live album Sunday Concert. On this release you get the original studio versions.Quite simply, Lightfoot is one of the best singer-songwriters of the last forty years and this belongs in any serious music library. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
49 of 51 people found the following review helpful
Shockingly Good,
March 3, 2003 Greg Cleary (Marquette, MI United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The United Artists Collection (Audio CD)
Before buying the UA Collection, I had owned and appreciated "Sundown" and "Summertime Dream" for years. I was also familiar with "Gord's Gold," but had given up on pursuing Gordon Lightfoot any further when a couple of his later albums turned out to be duds. But this collection has been something of a revelation for me. The first disc, in particular, is shockingly good. The songs that were later re-recorded for "Gord's Gold" sound even better here, without the orchestral arrangements. Lightfoot is a populist at heart. He has always had a good idea of which songs his fans like best, and has been willing to play them live and to include the right songs on compilations like "Gord's Gold." But no compilation can do justice to the wealth of excellent material on his first four albums, which are all included here in their entirety. After the acoustic guitar bliss of the first disc, it is almost jarring to hear the fuller arrangements on the "Did She Mention My Name" album,...Read more
40 of 41 people found the following review helpful
This is it: Gordon at his best,
March 19, 1999 By A Customer
This review is from: The United Artists Collection (Audio CD)
I own all of Gordon Lightfoot's albums except the two "Gord's Gold" collections. As far as I am concerned, he is one of the best songwriters ever, but he did his best work early in his career. This two-CD set compiles his first four United Artists albums. I picked this up at a record store a few years ago, for twice the price for which it's offered here. What a steal to have all this music for only $12.00. The songs in this collection have been repackaged at least a dozen times over the years; some of those compilations are available here at amazon.com. But they are not complete; they contain only a few songs from the first four albums. Here, you get them all. And if you listen to all of them in one sitting (2 1/2 hours!), you will hear one of the most stunning collections of contemporary songs you'll find in one place. Where to begin to describe the effect of listening to this music? The acoustic material that opens disc one includes performances of stark...Read more
