Salute (album)

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Salute
Salute cover
Studio album by Gordon Lightfoot
Released 1983
Recorded  ??
Genre Folk
Length 36:16
Label Warner Brothers Records
Producer(s) Dean Parks and Gordon Lightfoot
Professional reviews
Gordon Lightfoot chronology
Shadows
(1982)		 Salute
(1983)		 East of Midnight
(1986)


Salute is Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot's 16th original album, released in 1983 on the Warner Brothers Records label.

The album barely registered on the charts and is one of Lightfoot's least known recordings. This is reflected in the fact that songs from the album very rarely feature in Lightfoot's live performances.

The album completed Lightfoot's shift from acoustic folk/country compositions to a more sleek adult contemporary sound, a shift that Lightfoot had begun on Shadows. However, Lightfoot didn't completely abandon his folk roots, as "Whispers of the North", "Knotty Pine" and "Tattoo" show.

In general, the album was more upbeat than its introspective predecessor with an even greater use of electric guitar licks and synthesizers.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Salute (A Lot More Livin' to Do)" – 4:24
  2. "Gotta Get Away" – 2:54
  3. "Whispers of the North" – 3:20
  4. "Someone to Believe In" – 3:32
  5. "Romance" – 3:31
  6. "Knotty Pine" – 4:00
  7. "Biscuit City" – 2:55
  8. "Without You" – 3:07
  9. "Tattoo" – 4:28
  10. "Broken Dreams" – 4:05

All compositions by Lightfoot.

[edit] Credits

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Gordon Lightfoot discography
Main albums: Lightfoot! (1966) | The Way I Feel (1967) | Did She Mention My Name (1968) | Back Here on Earth (1968) | Sunday Concert (1969) | 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)
Main Compilations: Gord's Gold (1975) | Gord's Gold, Vol. 2 (1988) | Songbook (1999) | Complete Greatest Hits (2002)
Notable Singles: "Canadian Railroad Trilogy" (1967) | "If You Could Read My Mind" (1970) | "Sundown" (1974) | "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" (1976)
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