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...GORDON LIGHTFOOT--Lightfoot is a fine old folkie getting better with age. An excellent guitarist, he also has a deep, hypnotic voice which fits his Canadian lumberjack image. He gives concerts in Boston all too rarely...
...President, as its chairman. Besides Guinier and Leonard, the members are Orlando Patterson, professor of Sociology, Preston N. Williams, Houghton Professor of Religion and Contemporary Change; John F. Kain, professor of Economics; DanielAaron, professor of English; James M. Jones, assistant professor of Social Psychology; and Sarah L. Lightfoot, assistant professor of Education...
Besides these albums, there were other good things to choose from: new albums from Bonnie Raitt and Gordon Lightfoot, Peter Yarrow's intelligently romantic debut solo album, and Colors of the Day (Electra), Judy Collins's greatest hits, which would be worth the price for her versions of "My Father" and "Who Knows Where the Time Goes?" alone. Below the Salt (Chrysalis) was a major breakthrough for Steeleye Span one of the few British folk groups to successfully infuse new excitement into traditional madrigals with stirring musical arrangements and tightly knit choral work. Their lead singer. Maddy Prior...
...Lightfoot. Harry Truman was the country boy of legend who comes to the big city and outwits all the slickers. His parents and grandparents were people of the Middle Border, the odd blend of Midwesterner and Southerner that enriches Missouri with all the paradoxes of that mid-continental mixture. He was innately religious and believed in daily prayer, but like his mother, he was a lightfoot Baptist; he looked on dancing, cardplaying and bourbon drinking with a tolerant eye. He wore his provincialism as proudly as he did his loud sports shirts, which, to much of the world, represent...
...constraints, some artists--usually in folk or in blues--have enjoyed considerable success in spite of the prettiness of their music or a special quality to their lyrics. A musician named John Simon has produced albums for some of the best, including Simon and Garfunkel, Seals and Crofts, Gordon Lightfoot, and The Band Ironically his own first record John Simon's Album, cut in 1970, remains virtually unknown. By almost any other standard its arrangements, musicianship, variety in tone, and emotional sophistication made it a remarkable debut...