Endless Wire

Gordon Lightfoot

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 28, 1994)
• Original Release Date: 1978
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Warner Bros / Wea
• ASIN: B000002MSQ
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #59,452 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Yet Another Terrific Album By Gordon Lightfoot!, August 19, 2000

By	Barron Laycock "Labradorman" (Temple, New Hampshire United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

I have always been a fan of Canadian Gordon Lightfoot's music. From the first time I 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 terrific album, one including a number of personal favorites. From the opening number of "Daylight Katy", a pensive number with a interesting backbeat, Gordon reminds of why he is such a perennial favorite. Like most of his releases, each of the included songs is something you smile at as it first comes on because it is a special favorite you always want to hear. From "Endless Wire" itself to "Dreamland", Lightfoot is consistently terrific, and seldom disappoints.

So it is with each of the songs here. My personal favorites are, first, "I Children had Wings", a wonderful albeit somber recollection to any of with children how mightily everyone involved in marital dissolution suffers. The second is "The Circle Is Small", a winsome warning to a lover that he knows about her wandering affections. Lightfoot has always been prolific, and in this sense it is an easy bet to get any of his dozen or so albums produced during the seventies, as they were so consistently terrific that a listener is sure to be pleased what is discovered on the album.

In fact, 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.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Endless Pleasure, October 29, 1998

By A Customer

Through the years, Lightfoot's lyrics are like old friends, and the sincerity of his delivery is even more moving and refreshing at the turn of the century than it was a generation ago. I especially love this album. It contains a mixture of his story songs,("Daylight Katy" and "Sweet Guinevere" are lovely) and the beginnings of his evolution to his more autobiographical, more urgent, more haunting style, ("Songs the Minstrel Sang","Endless Wire"). "If Children had Wings" is probably his most underrated song. It is worth the price of the album to have access to its lyrics. Enjoy! Endlessly

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic Gordo, March 23, 2005

By	Rick Ansgar (usa) - See all my reviews

Gordon Lightfoot is one of the greatest composers of his genre. This album is for anyone who is a fan of his genius. He's changed gears slightly from his prior album, Summertime Dream, but again he's scored a winner. Ballads ala Gordo, play on! My favorite song on this album is, Endless Wire.