Harmony

Gordon Lightfoot | Format: MP3 Download

Product Details

• Original Release Date: January 1, 2004
• Label: Linus Entertainment Inc.
• Copyright: 2004 Early Morning Productions Under License to Linus Entertainment Inc.
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• ASIN: B0029QUKC6
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (65 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #157,384 Paid in MP3 Albums (See Top 100 Paid in MP3 Albums)

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46 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lightfoot is back, September 18, 2004

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Bruce Trinque (Amston, CT United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Harmony (Audio CD)

As mentioned in other reviews of "Harmony", this album can make a serious claim to be Gordon Lightfoot's best in decades. Looking back through my collection, I might say that not since "Shadows" has there been a single album with such a sustained quality of songs. True, Lightfoot's voice is not what it once was, but I think he has come to terms with that and has found new roads to using it in the best way. I had a feeling with "Waiting for You" and to some extent "A Painter Passing Through" that he was to some degree forcing his voice a bit as compensation for its decrease in range and tone (a feeling, by the way, that I never had when seeing him in concert), and perhaps the balance between instrumentation and vocals had shifted too far towards the former. But in "Harmony" Lightfoot once again uses his voice as a fine instrument in itself. These thoughtful songs on this album stand as equalling in quality what he was writing two or three decades ago. I have already played the album several times over and cannot decide which cuts I like best -- there simply are too many good choices.

Gordon Lightfoot's recordings, like his concert appearances, are characterized not only by his distinctive lyrical sense but also by the particular style of his long-time collaborators in his regular backup group: Rick Haynes, Terry Clement, Barry Keane, and Mike Heffernan. These are musicians who have toured and recorded with Lightfoot not only for years, but literally for decades. (I think such loyalty, in both directions, must say something about the man.) They are present again on most of the cuts on "Harmony" but, pleasing to this longtime fan, there is also another familiar name: Red Shea, guitarist on some of Lightfoot's earliest albums.

Although this latest album represents something of a continuing evolution, it also reflects a pleasing continuity with what has come before. If you are a Gordon Lightfoot fan, you cannot miss this album.

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Coo, Cha-Ching!, July 29, 2004

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P. E. Marshall "Reference Guy" (Reynoldsburg, OH United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Harmony (Audio CD)

This CD is better than either Waiting for You or Painter Passing Through, both done years earlier. Passionate, folksy and funny, this group of songs does Gordon justice. Songs that bring to mind his native Ontario, like Couchiching, and a live rendition, No Hotel, that describes a trip to the Amazon with some tree huggers, are my favorites. The paternalistic romance of Inspiration Lady, is lilting and enticing. You might have to go back before East of Midnight, to find a Lightfoot album this well written and well produced. The voice has aged appreciably, but the guts of Lightfoot remain.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Still amazing after all these years, August 25, 2004

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Wendy H. Mitchell (Amherst, Virginia, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Harmony (Import) (Audio CD)

I was first introduced to Gordon's work in 1967 by a friend whose family summered not very far from Orillia. I have listened and loved the man and his work all this time. When I first heard Harmony, I thought it was a good album considering how it was put together. The more I have listened, the more I have been amazed. His lyrics still send chills and speak to the heart and mind. The music goes hand in hand with those well-crafted words. In many ways, I think this is one of the best albums he has given us. It truly is a gift. Thank you, Gordon.