Harmony is a stunning return to form for Gordon Lightfoot. The album is like a fine vintage wine preserved since the seventies. It will make you cry. It will make you yearn. It will sadden you. It will lift you. Chill bumps will form on your arms as you listen to songs so magestically sad and full of reminiscence. No other songwriter, living or dead, can accomplish this, and Gord's fans know it's true.
The songs "End of All Time" and "Sometimes I Wish" are masterpieces that will make your heart hurt and rank with Gord's best in this genre. "Shellfish" is as poetically philosophical as any folk song can possibly be. The title song, "Harmony" is as soothing, yet heartbreaking, as anything Gord has done since "Pony Man
Through the woodlands "Don Quixote" rides his stallion into our hearts again. He will sear it apart with his sword. Ah, but the pain is worth it.
There's not one songwriter today,that could match him! If they held a songwriting duel,our "Don Quixote" would certainly do more than just tilt at the proverbial windmill! His pen would be mightier than any "cutting edge" sword of 21st century music! That's for darn sure! Aurevoir!
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"A knight of the road,going back to a place where he might get warm." - Borderstone
quote:Originally posted by Shelty: Harmony is a stunning return to form for Gordon Lightfoot. The album is like a fine vintage wine preserved since the seventies. It will make you cry. It will make you yearn. It will sadden you. It will lift you. Chill bumps will form on your arms as you listen to songs so magestically sad and full of reminiscence. No other songwriter, living or dead, can accomplish this, and Gord's fans know it's true.
The songs "End of All Time" and "Sometimes I Wish" are masterpieces that will make your heart hurt and rank with Gord's best in this genre. "Shellfish" is as poetically philosophical as any folk song can possibly be. The title song, "Harmony" is as soothing, yet heartbreaking, as anything Gord has done since "Pony Man
Through the woodlands "Don Quixote" rides his stallion into our hearts again. He will sear it apart with his sword. Ah, but the pain is worth it.
Shelty,
that is one beautiful post! Listening to Gord has rubbed off on you.
I am not ashamed to admit there are hot, stinging tears running down my face.
There is NO other songwriter on earth, save maybe Elton John, who can make me cry tears of sorrow and hope. It's unreal. I can't describe it.
The magnitude of this album is staggering me. It truly is as if he did indeed write it AFTER his brush with death...particularly "River of Light". It is a towering accomplishment, and if it were to have been his epitaph, it would be a fitting tribute.
His pen would be mightier than any "cutting edge" sword of 21st century music! That's for darn sure! 
Aurevoir! 
- Borderstone
