A Painter Passing Through
1998 studio album by Gordon Lightfoot
A Painter Passing Through | ||||
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Studio album by Gordon Lightfoot | ||||
Released | May 1, 1998 | |||
Recorded | 1996–1997 | |||
Studio | Grant Avenue Studio, Hamilton, Canada | |||
Genre | Folk | |||
Length | 37:28 | |||
Label | Reprise | |||
Producer | Bob Doidge, Gordon Lightfoot | |||
Gordon Lightfoot chronology | ||||
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A Painter Passing Through is the eighteenth studio album by Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot, released in 1998 on Reprise Records. It was his first album of original music in five years after Waiting for You, which had been his first since 1986's East of Midnight. Well-known record producer Daniel Lanois makes a guest appearance on the album. A Painter Passing Through is a live studio album.
The song "Drifters" was performed by Ron Sexsmith on the album, Beautiful: A Tribute to Gordon Lightfoot, in 2003.
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Track listing
All compositions by Gordon Lightfoot, except where noted
- "Drifters" - 3:27
- "My Little Love" - 4:08
- "Ringneck Loon" - 4:14
- "I Used to Be a Country Singer" (Steve McEown) - 3:16
- "Boathouse" - 4:13
- "Much to My Surprise" - 3:42
- "A Painter Passing Through" - 3:55
- "On Yonge Street" - 4:27
- "Red Velvet" (Ian Tyson) - 2:37
- "Uncle Toad Said" - 3:29
Personnel
- Gordon Lightfoot – vocals, six, twelve and high-string guitars
- Terry Clements – acoustic and electric guitars
- Daniel Lanois – electric and mando-guitars on (5, 8)
- Bill Dillon – electric guitar on (1, 2), guitorgan on (3)
- Wendell Ferguson – electric guitar on (4, 9)
- John Lewis – electric guitar on (14)
- Doug Johnson – steel guitar on (9), dobro on (9)
- Pee Wee Charles – pedal steel guitar on (6)
- Rick Haynes – bass guitar
- Mike Heffernan – synthesizer, keyboards
- Barry Keane – drums, percussion
- Lisa Logan on (4, 7, 9), Lisa Winn on (4), Bob Doidge on (4, 5, 7) – backing vocals
- Willie P. Bennett – harmonica on (10)
- https://www.discogs.com/release/6226771-Gordon-Lightfoot-A-Painter-Passing-Through-
External links
- Florian Bodenseher's fansite on Gordon Lightfoot
- 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)