Gordon Lightfoot, 2018
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Gordon Lightfoot’s last live record, “At Royal Albert Hall”, will be released on July 14th. The country and folk musician died of natural causes on May 1, 2023 at the age of 84. The LP is an unedited recording of his 2016 performance at London’s Royal Albert Hall. A representative for the musician says that in the weeks leading up to his death, Lightfoot was adamant that the album be released as soon as possible.
It features many of his biggest hits such as “If You Could Read My Mind”, “Early Morning Rain” and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”. Also, songs that have never been released on a live album, such as “Beautiful” and “Don Quixote,” are performed by Rick Haynes on bass, Barry Keane on drums, Mike Heffernan on keys, and Carter Lancaster on guitar.
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Disc 1:
- “The Watchman’s Gone”
- “Sea of Tranquility”
- “Now and Then”
- “All the Lovely Ladies”
- “Drifters”
- “A Painter Passing Through”
- “Christian Island”
- “Rainy Day People”
- “Shadows”
- beautiful
- “Care Free Highway”
- “Did She Mention My Name”
- “Ribbon of Darkness”
- “Sundown”
Disc 2:
- “Sweet Guinevere”
- “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”
- “Never Too Close”
- “Don Quixote”
- “Minstrel of the Dawn”
- “I’d Rather Press On”
- “Let It Ride”
- “If You Could Read My Mind”
- “restless”
- “Baby Step Back”
- “Early Morning Rain”
- “Waiting for You”
After an abdominal aorta aneurysm in 2002/2003, Lightfoot had to slow down for the first time. In 2004 the album “Harmony” and other recordings were released. His last work is “Solo” (2020), which he recorded in the provincial town of Hamilton (Ontario), rooted in rural tradition.