Harmony: Gordon Lightfoot: Amazon.ca: Music

1. Harmony

2. River Of Light

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5. End Of All Time

6. Shellfish

7. The No Hotel

8. Inspiration Lady

9. Clouds Of Loneliness

10. Couchiching

11. Sometimes I Wish

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Gordon Lightfoot's latest original album, the 20th of a long and illustrious career, is a collection of new recordings and live tracks and a testament to both a gifted singer-songwriter's unquestionable artistry and his indomitable work ethic. Rajon. 2005.

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Gordon Lightfoot's Album, the 20th of a Long and Illustrious Career, is a Collection of New Recordings and Live Tracks and a Testament to Both a Gifted Singer-songwriter's Unquestionable Artistry and his Indomitable Work Ethic.

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

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

This review is from: Harmony (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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars pure harmony!, Mar 4 2010

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CherNotTheSinger (Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Harmony (Audio CD)

Gordorn Lightfoot still had what it takes when he recorded "Harmony"! The songs are a beautiful account of his life in retrospect... one who has fully lived by fully loving... one who has loved and lost... one who let the odd one get away but hasn't forgotten them! So many beautiful songs with wonderful lyrics that I cannot narrow it down to even a half dozen favourites! The melodies of "Harmony" play over and over in my mind long after the cd is over!

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3.0 out of 5 stars renewal and promise, July 17 2004

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Jerome Clark (Canby, Minnesota) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Harmony (Audio CD)

Even if this is not a great album, it's a welcome one, and not just because it celebrates the happy fact of Gordon Lightfoot's continued existence. It also offers promise, one hopes, of better things to come. It is at least the ghost of Lightfoot's best work, those memorable recordings he did in the 1960s for United Artists and in the early to mid-70s for Reprise. After that, the sound faded off too often into what struck this listener as listless adult-contemporary pop, with arrangements both overdone and now horribly dated. Little of that shows up here, which is good news indeed.

On Harmony, Lightfoot is back to a sparer acoustic sound akin to the folk textures of the classic catalogue. Among the good songs here, not the least is the title tune, which I take to be about Lightfoot's fight to regain not just his life but his muse. "Flyin' Blind" is a nicely imagined modern ballad about a pilot's perilous flight over the arctic wastes. "Shellfish" is an exceptional song, vivid and moving, and the album's artistic high point.

On the other hand, "Inspiration Lady" is as uninspired as its title suggests, the one purely disposable cut. "Couchiching" suffers from some excruciatingly careless writing; it pains the ear to hear couplets that rhyme "hit you with a ping" and "your thing" with "Couchiching" (a lake in Ontario near Lightfoot's birthplace). The song itself comes across as more advertising jingle than anything else. It didn't have to and wouldn't have if Lightfoot had put more effort into the writing.

Though uneven, sometimes a bit tentative sounding, Harmony has its pleasures, and it grows on you. It marks, if not a full return to form, at least a solid step in that direction.

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5.0 out of 5 stars No Mistake About It
Sincere, tactful and urgent, "Harmony" plays like Gordon Lightfoot's "Harvest Moon," a collection of songs whose deeply engaging arrangements, taut song... Read more

Published on July 13 2004 by Gianmarco Manzione

5.0 out of 5 stars What an Album
I must say that I am Very impressed. After I heard A Painter Passing Through, I thought that the old Lightfoot was gone. Read more

Published on July 13 2004 by joecool862