Shadows (Gordon Lightfoot album)

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Shadows
Album Shadows.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedJanuary 1982
RecordedMarch – April, June 1981
StudioEastern Sound, Toronto
Genre Folk
Length37:23
Label Warner Bros.
Producer Gordon Lightfoot, Ken Friesen
Gordon Lightfoot chronology
Dream Street Rose
(1980)
Shadows
(1982)
Salute
(1983)

Shadows is Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot's fourteenth studio album, released in 1982 on the Warner Bros. Records label. It peaked at #87 on the Billboard charts.

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The album marked another significant turning point in Lightfoot's musical evolution. He moves further away from his acoustic roots through greater use of synthesizers and electric organ.

The album is softer in composition than its immediate predecessors with a return to slower, more introspective ballads as compared to the faster, country style of Lightfoot's mid-1970s albums.[ citation needed ]

Although a commercial failure (Lightfoot referred to it as "the music industry's best-kept secret"), the critical reception of the album was positive.

"Baby Step Back" peaked at number 17 on the US Adult Contemporary chart and #50 on the Billboard Hot 100. It also reached number six on the Canadian Adult Contemporary chart. [1]

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Track listing

All songs composed by Gordon Lightfoot.

  1. "14 Karat Gold" – 3:56
  2. "In My Fashion" – 3:05
  3. "Shadows" – 3:02
  4. "Blackberry Wine" – 3:05
  5. "Heaven Help the Devil" – 3:14
  6. "Thank You For the Promises" – 2:53
  7. "Baby Step Back" – 3:59
  8. "All I'm After" – 3:23
  9. "Triangle" – 4:10
  10. "I'll Do Anything" – 3:25
  11. "She's Not the Same" – 3:11

Personnel

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References

  1. "Image : RPM Weekly". Library and Archives Canada . 17 July 2013.
  2. https://www.allmusic.com/album/r107538