This album and the single both reached #1 on the Billboard pop charts in the US and Canada, the only Lightfoot recordings to do so. A great CD!

Track Listing

1. Somewhere USA
2. High And Dry
3. Seven Island Suite
4. Circle Of Steel
5. Is There Anyone Home
6. Watchman's Gone
7. Sundown
8. Carefree Highway
9. List
10. Too Late For Pryin'

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10855 in Music
• Released on: 1993-01-25
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .19 pounds

CD Description
By the mid-1970s, Gordon Lightfoot had become a full-fledged pop star, a staple of AM radio, and a regular denizen of the Billboard charts. While his production sensibilities at the time had expanded a bit by the time of SUNDOWN, he was never a folk purist to begin with, and it's a superficial distinction at best. What's important is that Lightfoot's songwriting acumen actually grew with his fame. "Circle of Steel",for example, is a cutting sociopolitical commentary that heprobably wouldn't have been able to turn out a few years earlier. On the other side of the fence, the casual sensualityof the title track would have stuck out like a sore thumb on Lightfoot's earliest, more mannered albums. The easy blendof folk and pop on the hit "Carefree Highway" represents the unique paradigm that was always at the heart of both Lightfoot's gift and his wide appeal.