Endless Wire Review - Playboy

[Wayne Francis]

Here is what Playboy magazine had to say about Endless Wire (I wonder if
Hef liked it?):

Gordon Lightfoot has an apparently inexhaustible ability to create
appealing melodies with chord structures simple enough to delight even the
most iron-fingered parlor guitarists. Add subtle, evocotive lyrics as fine
as any being written today and you have the ingredients for a steady
popularity that is likely to last as long as Lightfoot cares to keep
singing. He writes an occasional hit for himself (Sundown) or others (Early
Morning Rain) and, between the big ones, sells to a loyal audience that
appreciates how good his stuff is, even when it isn't dominating AM radio.
His latest, Endless Wire (Warner Bros.), doesn't show any signs of
containing another Sundown, but it does have some fine material, songs
that sound good at first hearing and seem to get better the more you listen
to them. Sweet Guinevere is a tragic tale told in elliptical style, as if
Lightfoot wanted to conceal the meaning. If There's A Reason has the flavor
of the best country songs; it's about breaking up, but it never gets weepy.
The arrangements, featuring musicians with whom Lightfoot has been working
for years, are as tasteful and inventive as the songs.

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Here we are almost 20 years later and Lightfoot still shows no signs that
his "inexhaustible ability to create appealing melodies" has dried up - and
yes, he still "cares to sing." All right! Bring on the new album!

Wayne