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Gordon Lightfoot: The United Artists Collection. It's a 2CD set that gives you his first four albums (mid-to-late 60s) in the same order as the original LPs. (Which is great - I hate it when they mix them up and they're out of chronological order!) Lightfoot was such a great songwriter. Interesting to see his vocal style shift over the years from an expressive pop vibrato to an understated folk-country drawl. Some of the production favours overblown arrangements (by today's standards) - lots of horns and strings. But other tracks have an acoustic backing, featuring Lightfoot's own guitar playing.

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Gordon Lightfoot: The United Artists Collection. It's a 2CD set that gives you his first four albums (mid-to-late 60s) in the same order as the original LPs. (Which is great - I hate it when they mix them up and they're out of chronological order!) Lightfoot was such a great songwriter. Interesting to see his vocal style shift over the years from an expressive pop vibrato to an understated folk-country drawl. Some of the production favours overblown arrangements (by today's standards) - lots of horns and strings. But other tracks have an acoustic backing, featuring Lightfoot's own guitar playing.

I always loved "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"

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Used to play him a lot on my radio show - especially B-Movie and H2O Gate Blues.

 

Anybody heard the recent album - I'm New Here?

 

Just got it. I shall have a listen this week.

 

In the mean time I am rather enjoying Jean-Jacques Perrey - 'Moog Indigo'.

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Neat trick with the mobiles. Yet another band, though, who owe EVERYTHING to The Band.

 

Which is 'The' band then?

 

When The Low Anthem play that song live, they get everyone to call each other on their mobiles and it creates an amazing noise - truly incredible. Has to be witnessed.

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Which is 'The' band then?

 

When The Low Anthem play that song live, they get everyone to call each other on their mobiles and it creates an amazing noise - truly incredible. Has to be witnessed.

 

Robbie Robertson, Levon Helm, Rick Danko, Richard Manuel and Garth Hudson (four-fifths Canadian, btw).

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Hazel O'Connor - "Will You"

 

The saxophone solo was used as the theme for a BBC TV series based around a welsh lifeboat station, and filmed at Mumbles near Swansea. I used to walk past it quite regularly when at Uni, and outside the station, and seen on the credits of the TV show, was a tethered old goat, with a baaaaad attitude.

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