Artist: LIGHTFOOT??GORDON</br>genre: Popular Music</br>product type: Compact Disc</br>Release Date: 2-APR-2002</br>Returns Accepted?: Yes</br></br>Product Description</br></br>The most comprehensive single-CD collection by this treasured troubadour. These 1965-1987 United Artists?? Reprise and Warner Bros. tracks include his Top 10 hits Sundown; If You Could Read My Mind; The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald; Carefree Highway ?? and 14 more!</br></br>Amazon.com</br></br>Though he rose from the ranks of journeyman '60s folksinger to become a  potent and consistent '70s hit maker?? Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon  Lightfoot's stock in trade was as much hard-eyed?? dispassionate observation as  romance or poetic whimsy. Perhaps that's why his songs have been covered by  everyone from Elvis (this  set's " Morning Rain") to  Dylan. If there's such a  thing as an alpha-male folkie?? Lightfoot certainly fits the bill. Spanning the  tongue-in-cheek chauvinism of 1965's "or Lovin' Me" and the cheatin' ways of  "Sundown" to more introspective fare like "If You Could Read My Mind" and  "Beautiful??"this 20-track collection presents a concise primer on Lightfoot's  career and craft. After his career peaked with one of the most unlikely top five  hits ever?? the gloom-laden 1976 narrative "he Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald??" Lightfoot's production tailed off sharply?? though this anthology's "tay Loose"  ('86) and "Restless" ('93) are testament to his enduring skills as a songwriter  and performer. <I>--Jerry McCulley</I></br><br/>http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005YW4NNpre-punch