This CD is a wonderful 20 song compilation, beautifully remastered, and containing Lightfoot's four biggest hits: If You Could Read My Mind, Sundown, Carefree Highway and Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. This CD uses the single (45) version of the first two songs, rather than the album version.

Track Listing

1. Early Morning Rain
2. For Lovin' Me
3. Go Go Round
4. Canadian Railroad Trilogy
5. Pussywillows Cat Tails
6. Bitter Green
7. If You Could Read My Mind
8. Summer Side Of Life
9. Cotton Jenny
10. Beautiful
11. Sundown
12. Carefree Highway
13. Rainy Day People
14. Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald
15. Race Among The Ruins
16. Daylight Katy
17. Circle Is Small
18. Baby Step Back
19. Stay Loose
20. Restless

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1561 in Music
• Released on: 2002-05-27
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

Amazon.co.uk Review
Although he rose from the ranks of journeyman 60s’ folksingers to become a potent and consistent 70s hit-maker, Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot’s stock-in-trade was as much hard-eyed, dispassionate observation as it was romance or poetic whimsy. Perhaps that’s why his songs have been covered by everyone from Elvis (this sets "Early Morning Rain") to Dylan. If there’s such a thing as an alpha-male folkie, Lightfoot certainly fits the bill.

Spanning the tongue-in-cheek chauvinism of 1965’s "For Lovin’ Me" and the cheatin’ ways of "Sundown", to more introspective fare like "If You Could Read My Mind" and "Beautiful", this 20-track collection presents a concise primer on Lightfoot’s career and craft. While his career peaked with one of the most unlikely Top Five hits ever, the gloom-laden 1976 narrative "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald", Lightfoot’s production tailed off sharply thereafter, though this anthology’s "Stay Loose" (86) and "Restless" (93) are testament to his enduring skills as a songwriter and performer. --Jerry McCulley

CD Description
He may be remembered by the unenlightened as a purveyor of mellow '70s AM radio hits, but Gordon Lightfoot is as fine asinger-songwriter as Canada has ever produced (no small accomplishment, considering the company), feted by no less thanBob Dylan himself. COMPLETE GREATEST HITS is as definitive a Lightfoot collection as you can get onto a single disc, and it bears out the aforementioned facts handsomely. "Early Morning Rain", one of Lightfoot's earliest hits, is a poignant evocation of lost love on a par with Merle Haggard's "Silver Wings". "If You Could Read My Mind" has enough introspective pop savvy to compete with Elton John's equally ubiquitous "Your Song". The bluesy, subtly sensual undercurrent of "Sundown" makes it plain why there's always been such a large female contingent in Lightfoot's audience, and "The Wreck ofthe Edmund Fitzgerald" proves that the pop star can write atimeless-sounding folk ballad worthy of Townes Van Zandt. Clearly, this compendium presents Lightfoot quite rightly as a man for all seasons.