This poignant song, on Gordon Lightfoot’s best album, the 1965 “Lightfoot!,” resembles “Sixteen Miles” as a requiem for lost love in a cabin in the wilderness. But it’s not, as one reader has maintained, a clone of that song (that miscreant reader falsely claimed that all Lightfoot songs sound the same!). “Long River” was composed by Lightfoot.
“Long River”
March 9, 2015 • 7:10 am
Anyone who cannot detect the difference between “Sundown” and “If You Could Read My Mind” is aurally deficient!
His later albums were way over-produced IMO, but this one remains a masterpiece
That is a fine song, Long River.
If I might offer a couple of other fine river tunes:
River Song by Tom Rush
Big River by Jimmy Nail with Mark Knopfler
There’s also a Johnny Cash ‘Big River’ (covered numerous times by the Grateful Dead).
Deep River Blues by Doc Watson, and
Lost River by Michael Martin Murphey. L
I do love a song with whistling.
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