Gordon Lightfoot has always been the kind of artist that you never really ever needed anything but a greatest hits for. He always has those one or two really good songs from every album, and his compilations Gord's Gold and Gord's Gold V.2 prove this. But his true albums themselves always seem like they're lacking, and Harmony--surprisingly his 20th-is no different. Put together quite quickly after his aneurysm in September of 2002, Lightfoot while resting in the hospital, hired a band to go in to the studio and lay down music to nine demos that had already been recorded. And demos are exactly what they sound like. The production is weak, the music is played extremely too safe, and Lightfoot just sounds like he's going through the motions. Surprisingly the two live tracks of new music here, "Shellfish" and "The No Hotel" are the two that work the best. But other than that, Harmony is yet another forgettable album in the Lightfoot catalog that is not much to look at in the long run.
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