Gordon Lightfoot - If You Could Read My Mind

Gordon Lightfoot's 1970 multi-gold and platinum-selling masterpiece!

Features the No. 1 single "If You Could Read My Mind"

Limited edition translucent gold vinyl pressing

Original artwork faithfully restored

Mastered by Friday Music's Joe Reagoso from the original Reprise Records tape

Also includes "Minstrel Of The Dawn," "The Pony Man," "Cobwebs & Dust" plus the first recorded version of "Me and Bobby McGee"

Featuring musicians Gordon Lightfoot, Randy Newman, Van Dyke Parks, Ry Cooder, John B. Sebastian (Lovin' Spoonful) Nick DeCaro (Baja Marimba Band), Red Shea and Rick Haynes

After a string of highly regarded albums for United Artists, Gordon Lightfoot left to start a new journey with Reprise Records. In April of 1970, he delivered a great collection of songs initially titled "Sit Down Young Stranger" to the brass at the new label, and in a relatively short time, radio was picking up a lot of traction with the brilliance of "If You Could Read My Mind."

The label convinced Gordon Lightfoot to change the name of the album to "If You Could Read My Mind" and the rest is pop music history. Within a few short months, the album would sell millions of copies around the world, netting him a No. 1 single and a Top 5 album.

As the song would carry well into 1971 and 1972, Gordon would become one a world class artist, setting him up for a career that would last for many decades.

The album would also include more Lightfoot classics such as "Minstrel Of The Dawn" "The Pony Man" "Approaching Lavender" as well as the first ever recorded version of "Me and Bobby McGee" by Kris Kristofferson.

His musician friends lined up to help record this masterwork with the likes of Randy Newman, Nick DeCaro, Ry Cooder, Van Dyke Parks, John B. Sebastian, plus long time bandmate greats Red Shea and Rick Haynes.

This album would go on to become one of the greatest albums of the 1970s and one of biggest albums in Gordon Lightfoot's significant catalog of recorded music.

Friday Music is very honored to revisit Gordon Lightfoot's masterpiece "If You Could Read My Mind" for the first time ever on stunning translucent gold vinyl. Mastered impeccably by long time Gordon Lightfoot reissue producer Joe Reagoso, this super limited edition masterpiece will also be featured in its classic LP cover designed by Tom Wilkes and Barry Feinstein.

 

Side 1

1. Minstrel Of The Darn

2. Me And Bobby Mcgee

3. Approaching Lavender

4. Saturday Clothes

5. Cobwebs & Dust

6. Poor Little Allison

Side 2

7. Sit Down Young Stranger

8. If You Could Read My Mind

9. Baby It’s Alright

10. Your Lover’s Return

11. The Pony Man

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