Released February 1972 Artist Gordon Lightfoot Label Reprise Records Genre Folk music | Length 41:41 Release date February 1972 Producer Lenny Waronker | |
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Recorded Amigo Studios in North Hollywood, California from December 1971 to January 1972 Don Quixote
(1972) Old Dan's Records
(1972) Similar Cold on the Shoulder, Old Dan's Records, Summer Side of Life, A Painter Passing Through, Did She Mention My Name? | ||
Don Quixote is Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot's 8th original album, released in 1972 on the Reprise Records Label. The album reached #42 on the Billboard album chart.
Contents
The album contains little innovation on Lightfoot's trademark folk sound although it is notable as it contains Lightfoot's third seafaring song (his first two being "Marie Christine" from Back Here on Earth and "Ballad of Yarmouth Castle" from Sunday Concert), a genre that Lightfoot would continually revisit over the next 10 years. It also contains a rare Lightfoot foray into the protest song genre, in the form of the longest track on the album, "The Patriot's Dream," a ballad describing the enthusiasm of soldiers on a troop train "riding off to glory in the spring of their years," followed by the pathos of a woman receiving news that her husband's aircraft had been shot down in combat.
"Beautiful" was released as a single and peaked at #58 on the Billboard singles chart.
On February 13, 1988, Lightfoot performed "Alberta Bound" in McMahon Stadium during the Opening Ceremonies for the 1988 Winter Olympics held in Calgary, Alberta.
Track listing
- "Don Quixote" – 3:41
- "Christian Island (Georgian Bay)" – 4:02
- "Alberta Bound" – 3:07
- "Looking at the Rain" – 3:40
- "Ordinary Man" – 3:19
- "Brave Mountaineers" – 3:36
- "Ode to Big Blue" – 4:48
- "Second Cup of Coffee" – 3:03
- "Beautiful" – 3:23
- "On Susan's Floor" (Shel Silverstein, Vince Matthews) – 2:58
- "The Patriot's Dream" – 6:04
All compositions by Lightfoot except as indicated.
Personnel
Songs
1Don Quixote3:40
2Christian Island (Georgian Bay)4:03
3Alberta Bound3:08