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Folk
Release Date: 04/02/2002
Rhino's 2002 collection
The Complete Greatest Hits is certainly welcome for presenting what is essentially all of his most popular songs on one 20-track disc, but, the thing is, that's actually a trickier task with
Gordon Lightfoot than you might think. On both volumes of
Gord's Gold, he re-recorded early songs and mixed them with current hits -- which meant that a new
"Canadian Railroad Trilogy" sat next to the hits like
"Sundown," but on
Gord's Gold, Vol. 2, newer songs (which weren't quite hits) were next to re-recorded versions of staples like
"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald." This, needless to say, was a bit of an irritant, but this is well-executed enough to make up for the years of awkward compilations by covering everything from his
UA recordings to his latter-day recordings for
Warner in the mid-'80s. Some might say there should be a little bit more of the earlier songs, but, for most listeners, this will contain all the major items and is as close to definitive as possible to get.
~Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
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