Cold on the Shoulder (Gordon Lightfoot album)

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Cold on the Shoulder
Album Cold on the Shoulder.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedFebruary 1975
RecordedSeptember–December 1974
StudioEastern Sound, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Genre Folk
Length43:12
Label Reprise
Producer Lenny Waronker
Gordon Lightfoot chronology
Sundown
(1974)
Cold on the Shoulder
(1975)
Summertime Dream
(1976)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Rolling Stone [2] (not rated)

Cold on the Shoulder is Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot's tenth studio album, released in 1975 on the Reprise Records label. [3] [4]

Contents

Track listing

All compositions by Gordon Lightfoot

Side 1

  1. "Bend in the Water" – 2:59
  2. "Rainy Day People" – 2:48
  3. "Cold on the Shoulder" – 3:00
  4. "The Soul Is the Rock" – 5:49
  5. "Bells of the Evening" – 3:56
  6. "Rainbow Trout" – 2:51

Side 2

  1. "A Tree Too Weak to Stand" – 3:22
  2. "All the Lovely Ladies" – 3:35
  3. "Fine as Fine Can Be" – 2:58
  4. "Cherokee Bend" – 5:02
  5. "Now and Then" – 3:09
  6. "Slide on Over" – 3:43


Chart performance

Chart (1975)Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report) [5] 44
Canadian RPM Top Albums3
U.S. Billboard 20010

Personnel

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References

  1. Cold on the Shoulder at AllMusic
  2. Scoppa, Bud (May 8, 1975). "Gordon Lightfoot: Cold on the Shoulder". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on October 2, 2007.
  3. "Dig out the Canadian music". By David Reed, Belleville Intelligencer, June 27, 2014
  4. "Release "Cold on the Shoulder" by Gordon Lightfoot". MusicBrainz. Retrieved April 13, 2017.
  5. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 177. ISBN   0-646-11917-6.