Back Here on Earth
Back Here on Earth | ||||
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Studio album by Gordon Lightfoot | ||||
Released | November 1968 | |||
Recorded | September 1968 | |||
Studio | Bradley's Barn, Mount Juliet, Tennessee | |||
Genre | Folk | |||
Length | 35:06 | |||
Label | United Artists | |||
Producer | Elliot Mazer | |||
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Back Here On Earth is Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot's fourth studio album, released in 1968 on the United Artists label. [1]
Apart from his eponymous debut album and final album (Solo), it is Lightfoot's only studio album not to derive its title from a song on the album. Back Here on Earth was Lightfoot's last studio recording on the United Artists label which he left after releasing the live album Sunday Concert in 1969.
Bear Family Records reissued Lightfoot's previous album, Did She Mention My Name, together with this album, Back Here on Earth, as a 2-in-1 CD in 1993.[2] It included as a bonus track a recording of "Spin, Spin" which did not appear on any of Lightfoot's original studio albums, though a John Court production of it was released as a single in 1966.[3] The version on the Bear Family Records reissue is tagged (New York remake version) and was produced by John Simon.
Reception
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In his Allmusic review, critic Richie Unterberger wrote of the album "It's not quite as outstanding as his first three albums, lacking highlights on the order of "Early Mornin' Rain" or "Black Day in July." Lightfoot never offered weak material on his United Artists efforts, however, and Back Here on Earth is still a very solid set, certainly worth acquiring if you like his other LPs for this label."[4]
Track listing
All compositions by Gordon Lightfoot
Side 1
- "Long Way Back Home" – 3:02
- "Unsettled Ways" – 1:51
- "Long Thin Dawn" – 2:57
- "Bitter Green" – 2:42
- "The Circle Is Small (I Can See It in Your Eyes)" – 3:26
- "Marie Christine" – 2:54
Side 2
- "Cold Hands from New York" – 5:16
- "Affair on 8th Avenue" – 3:25
- "Don't Beat Me Down" – 3:16
- "The Gypsy" – 2:45
- "If I Could" – 4:02
Bonus Track on Bear Family CD re-release
- "Spin, Spin"
Personnel
- Gordon Lightfoot - 6 & 12 string acoustic guitar, vocals
- Red Shea - lead acoustic guitar
- John Stockfish - bass
- Technical
- Elliot Mazer - producer
- Bill Blachly, Charlie Tallent - engineer
- Harry Kemball - photography
References
- ^ "Release "Back Here On Earth" by Gordon Lightfoot". Musicbrainz. Retrieved 11 April 2017.
- ^ "Release "Did She Mention My Name / Back Here On Earth" by Gordon Lightfoot". MusicBrainz.
- ^ "Gordon Lightfoot - Spin, Spin / For Lovin' Me (Vinyl)". Discogs. 1966. Retrieved 12 April 2017.
- ^ a b Unterberger, Richie. "Back Here on Earth > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved November 7, 2011.
External links
- Album lyrics and chords
- v
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- Lightfoot! (1966)
- The Way I Feel (1967)
- Did She Mention My Name? (1968)
- Back Here on Earth (1968)
- Sit Down Young Stranger (1970)
- Summer Side of Life (1971)
- Don Quixote (1972)
- Old Dan's Records (1972)
- Sundown (1974)
- Cold on the Shoulder (1975)
- Summertime Dream (1976)
- Endless Wire (1978)
- Dream Street Rose (1980)
- Shadows (1982)
- Salute (1983)
- East of Midnight (1986)
- Waiting for You (1993)
- A Painter Passing Through (1998)
- Harmony (2004)
- Solo (2020)
- Gord's Gold (1975)
- Gord's Gold Volume II (1988)
- Songbook (1999)
- Sunday Concert (1969)
- All Live (2012)
- "I'm Not Sayin'" (1965)
- "Ribbon of Darkness" (1965)
- "Early Morning Rain" (1966)
- "Canadian Railroad Trilogy" (1967)
- "Bitter Green" (1968)
- "Me and Bobby McGee" (1970)
- "If You Could Read My Mind" (1970)
- "Beautiful" (1972)
- "Sundown" (1974)
- "Carefree Highway" (1974)
- "Rainy Day People" (1975)
- "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" (1976)
- Discography
- "Tears Are Not Enough"
- Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind (2019)