Songbook [Box Set] (1999)

About this title: Gordon Lightfoot's Songbook is a career-spanning, four-CD, 88-song box set with a pretty chronologically even balance of material from the mid-'60s through 1998. It also has 15 previously unreleased cuts, as well as his 1962 debut single, "(Remember Me) I'm the One"/"It's Too Late, He Wins" (which is lame MOR Nashville country). One could quibble with the song selection ("Black Day in July" is missing, for instance) and the relatively light attention to his 1960s work (which is limited to disc one); an opportunity was also missed to include a rarity by excluding his mid-'60s single of Bob ... read more

Tracks:

1. (Remember Me) I'm the One [Lightfoot]
2. It's Too Late, He Wins [Lightfoot]
3. For Lovin' Me [Lightfoot]
4. Early Morning Rain [Lightfoot]
5. The Way I Feel [Lightfoot]
6. Steel Rail Blues [Lightfoot]
7. A Message to the Wind [Lightfoot]
8. Song for a Winter's Night [Lightfoot]
9. Canadian Railroad Trilogy [Lightfoot]
10. Go-Go Round [Lightfoot]
11. Crossroads [Lightfoot]
12. You'll Still Be Needing Me [Lightfoot]
13. The Mountains and Maryann [Lightfoot]
14. The Last Time I Saw Her [Lightfoot]
15. Did She Mention My Name [Lightfoot]
16. Pussywillows, Cat-Tails [Lightfoot]
17. Boss Man [Lightfoot]
18. Something Very Special [Lightfoot]
19. Bitter Green [Lightfoot]
20. Affair on 8th Avenue [Lightfoot]
21. Medley: I'm Not Sayin'/Ribbon of Darkness [Lightfoot]
22. Softly [Live] [Lightfoot]
23. Mama Said [Lightfoot]
24. Station Master [Lightfoot]
25. Sit Down Young Stranger [Lightfoot]
26. If You Could Read My Mind [Lightfoot]
27. Poor Little Allison [Lightfoot]
28. The Pony Man [Lightfoot]
29. Cobwebs & Dust [Lightfoot]
30. Too Much to Lose [Lightfoot]
31. Summer Side of Life [Lightfoot]
32. Cotton Jenny [Lightfoot]
33. 10 Degrees & Getting Colder [Lightfoot]
34. Nous Vivons Ensemble [Lightfoot]
35. Same Old Loverman [Lightfoot]
36. Heaven Don't Deserve Me [Lightfoot]
37. Don Quixote [Lightfoot]
38. Alberta Bound [Lightfoot]
39. Beautiful [Lightfoot]
40. Ode to Big Blue [Lightfoot]
41. Stone Cold Sober [Lightfoot]
42. Old Dan's Records [Lightfoot]
43. That Same Old Obsession [Lightfoot]
44. Lazy Mornin' [Lightfoot]
45. Hi'way Songs [Lightfoot]
46. Can't Depend on Love [Lightfoot]
47. Sundown [Lightfoot]
48. Carefree Highway [Lightfoot]
49. Seven Island Suite [Lightfoot]
50. Borderstone [Lightfoot]
51. Cold on the Shoulder [Lightfoot]
52. Now and Then [Lightfoot]
53. Rainy Day People [Lightfoot]
54. Fine as Fine Can Be [Lightfoot]
55. All the Lovely Ladies [Lightfoot]
56. Summertime Dream [Lightfoot]
57. The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald [Lightfoot]
58. Never Too Close [Lightfoot]
59. Betty Called Me In [Lightfoot]
60. Endless Wire [Lightfoot]
61. The Circle Is Small [Lightfoot]
62. Sea of Tranquility [Lightfoot]
63. Make Way for the Lady [Lightfoot]
64. Dream Street Rose [Lightfoot]
65. Ghosts of Cape Horn [Lightfoot]
66. Keepin' on Yearnin' [Lightfoot]
67. Canary Yellow Canoe [Lightfoot]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.