It's kind of unfortunate that he's decided since the 70s to re-record many of his songs. some including myself have only been mostly familier with those remakes of his 60s stuff though I've been fortunate enough to have discovered internet radio and even one UA best of LP I din't realize I had. My parents never played it. Has a lot of songs featured on the 75 GG 1 LP,sometimes Ithink the re-recordings are 1 little bit better of the originals are pretty good and both have their similarities only know the remake of Ribbon Of Darkness though I get the feeling he really modernised it. I know while both versions of W&W are fast the drum beast on the 2nd version somehow makes it sound so 1975 than 1968. There a yahoo station for Lightfoot and once tried to listen to The Edmund Fitzgerald song and it sounded light the re-recording that whoever it was that mentioned it. BTW the station also includes a re-redording of Race Among the Ruines.doesn't sound good at all. I feel sorry for those who by these best of LP's and are suprised they find thse different version of these songs and find they've wasted their money.
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