2024 the best of gordon lightfoot album review
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Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
Language : English
Product Dimensions : 5.59 x 5.04 x 0.39 inches; 3.39 ounces
Manufacturer : Warner
Original Release Date : 1994
Date First Available : December 7, 2006
Label : Warner
ASIN : B000002MSS
Number of discs : 1
Reviewer: Bobby B
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great CD
Review: More great music from GL!
Reviewer: Barron Laycock
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Gordon Lightfoot's Perfect Album!
Review: I have always been a fan of Canadian Gordon Lightfoot's music. From the first time eI heard Peter, Paul and Mary's wonderful covers of Lightfoot songs like "Early Morning Rain" and "For Loving Me", I knew anyone who could write songs like that was a huge talent. So when I got turned onto his own voice and music I was astonished by just how good he was (and still is). This is a perfect album because, like several of his other releases, each of the dozen songs included is something you smile at as it first comes on because it is a special favorite. So the song cycle here is unforgettable. The first song is "Christian Islands, and friends of mine who sail say Lightfoot must be a sailor because he had caught the essence of the experience here. "Don Quixote" is a special statement much along the lines of other works like "If You Could Read My Mind" etc that is done in a colorful and unique prose style that leaves the listener to interpret what Lightfoot is talking about.And so on with each of the songs here. My personal favorites are the two mentioned above as well as "Ode To Big Blue" "Second Cup Of Coffee", and "On Susan's Floor", but I really love them all. If one listens to all of the similarly terrific albums Lightfoot put out over a seven or eight-year period one comes up with literally dozens and dozens of wonderful and memorable songs that could fill several double albums. This guy was far more prolific than anyone else producing work in the sixties and seventies. Buy this album, and after listening to it for a week or so you will be back for "Sundown", "Summertime Dream", "Cold On The Shoulder" and "If You Could Read My Mind". They are all great. Enjoy this one of a kind artist and his amazingly consistent flood of terrific and appealing mainstream folk albums.
Reviewer: Valerie Magee
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Another exceptional album - vintage Lightfoot!
Review: Don Quixote was Lightfoot's third album for Warner Bros. and his 8th overall (he released his 19th original album - A Painter Passing Through - in May, 1998). Along with his first Warner Bros. album, If You Could Read My Mind, and his most successful album on the Billboard charts, Sundown, Don Quixote showcases Lightfoot's singing and songwriting, and is a fine example of where this versatile artist was musically in the early 70s.The album is a wonderful collection of songs including some of the best and most popular he has written. There is not a top 10 hit on this album, but don't let that fool you into thinking there's no gold here. Every single song is superb, and today - 26 years later - Lightfoot is still performing no fewer than five of the songs from this album in concert. This includes the title song, Don Quixote, which contains some of the most brilliant lyrics he has ever written (and that is saying a lot!) plus Beautiful, Ode To Big Blue, Christian Island and On Susan's Floor, the last by Shel Silverstein and Vince Matthews.Thematically, this album is a sampling of what inspired and still inspires him ... love and love lost (Second Cup Of Coffee is one of his most poignant autobiographical songs), Canada, the outdoors and the environment, the tragedy of war, ships and the water, to name just a few. Even a collection such as Gord's Gold, with many more songs, fails to offer such a broad array of themes from a songwriter who writes so brilliantly about so many things in a way few others can.This is an album you will surely enjoy.
Reviewer: S. Crockett
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: One of my favorites
Review: I discovered Gordon LIghtfoot's music back in the mid-70s and had several albums, but I can't play them on any device I own now. So I'm replacing some of my favorites with CDs, which I can download to my PC (and then put on a thumb drive to play in my car) or play them on CD players I still have. This CD has a few of my absolute favorites - Don Quixote, Christian Island, Beautiful, Second Cup of Coffee - but I really enjoy all of the songs.
Reviewer: musicfan
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Solid Folk album
Review: Having been blown away by SUNDOWN, I was eager to pick up another Gordon Lightfoot album. DON QUIXOTE seemed like a good choice. This album is firmly rooted in folk (no drums here my friend) as evidenced in such songs as "Alberta bound" "Second Cup of Coffee" and "Brave Mountaineers"The prime cuts for me on this album were "Don Quixote", "Ordinary Man" , and "Ode to Big Blue". Not as much variety as SUNDOWN but if you like folk, DON QUIXOTE is your album...enjoy!
Reviewer: Anita M. Bischoff
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Beautiful songs from a master storyteller
Review: From the first song, Beautiful...to the last song, Don Quixote....this album is just wonderful. It features some of the absolute best examples of Gordon Lightfoot's earlier music. Gordon Lightfoot is a storyteller and he filled this album with so many evocative songs. On Susans Floor and Second Cup of Coffee are lovely songs. Two of my favorite Gordon Lightfoot songs are Christian Island (Georgian Bay) and Alberta Bound and they are back-to-back on the album. From sailing down.....to catching a plane home.....Christian Island and Alberta Bound are just beautiful songs. The whole album is fabulous. I owned it on vinyl back in the day and now I have the CD plus the mp3 in my Amazon music app.
Reviewer: Barbara D Rich
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great album.
Review: Bought it for my granddaughter! She loves it!!!! Great album!!
Reviewer: Eric Jefferds
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Vintage Lightfoot
Review: I've owned the album since it first came out and it was a delight to hear it without the scratches. This is from that period in his career where fame was increasing yet it had not seemingly gone to his head. The subject list goes from anti-war to hunting wales, with a variety of expressions of romance in its different seasons inbetween.The production quality and instrumental accompanyment is top-notch. One of the qualities of Lightfoot has been that out of the studio and in person there was no let-down. Hopefully another generation will listen and keep his music from being forgotten.
Reviewer: mitchell
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I bought this one used. It was hard to find. Not surprising. Just about every cut here I love especially Alberta Bound. If your are a Lightfoot fan like me you will enjoy this.
Reviewer: Südpälzer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Musikalisch alles vom Feinsten, und ich muss gestehen, dass etliche Titel mir unbekannt waren.Da habe ich tatsächlich was verpasst. Ich bedaure, dass ich mir die CD nicht schon früher gekauft habe.Aber das ist nun ausgebügelt. 🙂
Reviewer: Patrick L.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: J'avais acheté cet album car je m'étais aperçu que la célèbre chanson "Looking at the rain" magnifiée par Eric Clapton était de Gordon Lightfoot.Les critiques étant positives sur ce qu'on considère comme l'un de ses meilleurs albums, j'ai cédé à la tentation.Bien m'en a pris.Un album qui même s'il a été enregistré au début des 70's n'a pas pris une ride.Le son y est très bon, on est dans une catégorie de chansons alternant folk, pop, country et ballades.Le tout servi par des musiciens de haut vol.Si vous aimez l'acoustique, les grands espaces, et envie de vous transporter en douceur dans l'univers de Gordon Lightfoot, n'hésitez plus.A écouter au coin du feu, lorsqu'il neige dehors ou que le temps n'y est pas...
Reviewer: Francisco José Pastrana Sanz
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Aunque ya tenÃa este disco en vinilo en su edición norteamericana me decidà a pedirle para ponerle en el coche por ser un disco muy entrañable para mi. Folk del bueno y muy evocador.
Reviewer: Gianluca
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: L'album perfetto di Gordon Lightfoot, cantatutore canadese che tra il finire degli anni 60 e i primi 70 ha inanellato una serie di album davvero notevoli. Questo è del 1972 ed è davvero pregevolissimo con il suo folk minimale ma denso di poesia. Chitarra e voce e tante emozioni per un album che ha l'unico difetto di essere troppo breve.