Waiting for You (Gordon Lightfoot album)
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Waiting for You is Canadian
singer Gordon Lightfoot
's 18th original album, released in 1993 on the Reprise Records
label.
It was his first album since 1986 and represented a comeback of sorts, since he had stated that East of Midnight
would be his last. The album is dedicated to his wife Elizabeth and son Miles. Lightfoot produced the album himself.
It is considered a return to form after his previous two or three outings which had moved more in to the adult contemporary
genre with greater use of electric guitar and synthesizers.
All compositions by Gordon Lightfoot except as indicated.
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
singer Gordon Lightfoot
Gordon Lightfoot
Gordon Meredith Lightfoot, Jr. is a Canadian singer-songwriter who achieved international success in folk, folk-rock, and country music, and has been credited for helping define the folk-pop sound of the 1960s and 1970s...
's 18th original album, released in 1993 on the Reprise Records
Reprise Records
Reprise Records is an American record label, founded in 1960 by Frank Sinatra. It is owned by Warner Music Group, and operated through Warner Bros. Records.-Beginnings:...
label.
It was his first album since 1986 and represented a comeback of sorts, since he had stated that East of Midnight
East of Midnight
East of Midnight is Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot's 17th original album, released in 1986 on the Warner Bros. Records label. The album reached #166 on the Billboard 200....
would be his last. The album is dedicated to his wife Elizabeth and son Miles. Lightfoot produced the album himself.
It is considered a return to form after his previous two or three outings which had moved more in to the adult contemporary
Adult contemporary music
Adult contemporary music is a broad style of popular music that ranges from lush 1950s and 1960s vocal music to predominantly ballad-heavy music with varying degrees of rock influence, as well as a radio format that plays such music....
genre with greater use of electric guitar and synthesizers.
Track listing
- "Restless" – 3:36
- "Ring Them Bells" – 2:56 (Bob DylanBob DylanBob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...
) - "Fading Away" – 3:10
- "Only Love Would Know" – 4:18
- "Welcome to Try" – 4:03
- "I'll Prove My Love" – 3:10
- "Waiting for You" – 3:35
- "Wild Strawberries" – 4:17
- "I'd Rather Press On" – 3:43
- "Drink Yer Glasses Empty" – 3:16
All compositions by Gordon Lightfoot except as indicated.
Credits
- Gordon Lightfoot - Vocals, GuitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
- Terry Clements - Lead guitarLead guitarLead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure...
- Rick Haynes - BassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
- Mike Heffernan - KeyboardsKeyboard instrumentA keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
- Barry Keane - DrumDrumThe drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments, which is technically classified as the membranophones. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with the player's hands, or with a...
s, PercussionPercussion instrumentA percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...