Description: Gordon Lightfoot Songbook 4 CD Box Set RHINO Excellent Condition 4 disc set with hardcover booklet and slipcase. Discs in excellent condition. Booklet and slipcase in excellent condition. Solid copy. See pics for description. Shipped out in sturdy box to protect box set. This 4 CD box set is a must-have for fans of Gordon Lightfoot. The Rhino label has done an excellent job with this release, providing a high-quality listening experience that will transport you to the singer songwriter / folk rock era. This 4 disc set comes with hardcover booklet and slipcase. Get your hands on this fantastic box set today! 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 Dylan's "Just Like Tom Thumb Blues." But generally it's a representative sampling of his most meaningful, or commercially successful, recordings. As for the previously unreleased songs, it's a tribute to Lightfoot's consistency that these don't sound out of step with the rest of the program, but also true that none of these are particularly exceptional or interesting. The following is true of so many box sets of this type that it feels like a cliché to point this out once again, but by giving equal space to various phases of his career, the music starts to go downhill steeply at around the middle of disc three, marking Lightfoot's descent (more graceful than some) into adult contemporary office music. There are extensive liner notes in the enclosed hardbound book, along with comments on each song by Lightfoot himself.
Price: 39.5 USD
Location: Brooklyn, New York
End Time: 2024-12-08T16:03:02.000Z
Shipping Cost: 8 USD
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
CD Grading: Excellent (EX)
Type: Box Set
Case Type: Jewel Case: Standard
Case Condition: Excellent (EX)
Inlay Condition: Excellent (EX)
Catalog Number: R2 75802
Release Year: 1999
Format: CD
Genre: Rock, Folk Rock, Rock & Pop
Run Time: 227 min.
Style: Folk Rock
Record Label: Rhino (Label)
Artist: Gordon Lightfoot, Ry Cooder, James Newton Howard
Release Title: Songbook [Box Set] [Box]