- folk
- 37 min
- 11 tracks
- Reprise Records
Sit Down Young Stranger is Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot's fifth original album and his best-selling original album. Shortly after its 1970 release on the Reprise Records label, it was renamed If You Could Read My Mind when the song of that title reached #1 on the RPM Top Singles chart in Canada and #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US.
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Classical in form, spare, earnest and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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Tracks
- A1Minstrel of the Dawn3:28
- A2Me and Bobby McGee3:47
- A3Approaching Lavender2:57
- A4Saturday Clothes3:21
- A5Cobwebs & Dust3:23
- A6Poor Little Allison2:31
- B1Sit Down Young Stranger3:27
- B2If You Could Read My Mind3:51
- B3Baby It’s Allright3:03
- B4Your Love’s Return3:57
- B5The Pony Man3:30
11 tracks, 37 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Gordon Lightfoot
- Label
- Reprise Records
- Released
- 1970
- Type
- Album
- Format
- 12" Vinyl
- Country
- US
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