This was
another early LP purchase (at the bookstore in the basement of the college center) once I arrived at college. I was feeling pretty adventurous back then with
my record purchases – I’m not sure if I’d heard any of these songs before,
although I was probably familiar with better-known Lightfoot tracks such as “Early
Morning Rain” and “For Lovin’ Me”, which were both covered by Peter, Paul &
Mary. Lightfoot’s voice is still in great shape here, the arrangements are
effective, and the songs (all written or co-written by Gordon) are great. Over
time, I wound up buying all of his albums that I had missed, and picked up new ones
as they came out through the end of the Seventies. (WARNING: Stay away from the
Gord’s Gold collection, on which many
of the tracks are re-recordings.)
Favorite
tracks:
The Way I
Feel
Softly
Crossroads
Song For A
Winter’s Night
