Lightfoot's first album for Warner Brothers, and his breakthrough on the US charts. Originally titled Sit Down Young Stranger, it was renamed when If You Could Read My Mind became a radio hit. This single CD is a must for every Lightfoot fan.

The title song was used on Trigger Happy TV, in the Portrait Artist sketches. Lightfoot did not give permission to include it on the soundtrack CD, but you can buy it here (or on Complete Greatest Hits, Gord's Gold or the Songbook Boxed Set).

Track Listing

1. Minstrel Of The Dawn
2. Me And Bobby McGee
3. Approaching Lavender
4. Saturday Clothes
5. Cobwebs And Dust
6. Poor Little Allison
7. Sit Down Young Stranger
8. If You Could Read My Mind
9. Baby It's Alright
10. Your Love's Return (Song For Stephen Foster)
11. Pony Man

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11315 in Music
• Released on: 1993-01-25
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

CD Description
Though he eventually came to be regarded as an MOR pop artist, Canadian singer/songwriter Gordon Lightfoot emerged fromthe 1960s folk world, and had as much in common with Ian & Sylvia, Eric Andersen, and Bob Dylan as he did with any '70sAM wonder. Though the title track of IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND was indeed his first massive pop hit, the album proves that Lightfoot was a serious, substantive song craftsman. "Minstrel of the Dawn" is a "Mr. Tambourine Man"-like affair that closes on a surprisingly sarcastic note. "Sit Down Young Stranger" and "Cobwebs & Dust" are the folkiest cuts, and each bears an incisive, poetic lyricism. The bluesy "Baby It'sAlright" and a cover of Kris Kristofferson's "Me and Bobby McGee" showcase Lightfoot's rootsier tendencies, while "Saturday Clothes" stands out by virtue of its Bacharach-like melody and dinner-jacket chord progression. While he wasn't as edgy as fellow Canuck Leonard Cohen, Lightfoot was clearly aformidable song-poet.