''A Painter Passing Through'' is the eighteenth studio album by

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singer

Gordon Lightfoot Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr. (November 17, 1938 – May 1, 2023) was a Canadian singer-songwriter who achieved worldwide success and helped define the singer-songwriter era of the 1970s. Widely considered one of Canada's greatest songwriters, ...

, released in 1998 on

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. It was his first album of original music in five years after '' Waiting for You'', which had been his first since 1986's '' East of Midnight''. Well-known record producer

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makes a guest appearance on the album. ''A Painter Passing Through'' is a live studio album. The song "Drifters" was performed by

Ron Sexsmith Ronald Eldon Sexsmith (born January 8, 1964) is a Canadian singer-songwriter from St. Catharines, Ontario. He was the songwriter of the year at the 2005 Juno Awards. He began releasing recordings of his own material in 1985 at age 21, and has ...

on the album, '' Beautiful: A Tribute to Gordon Lightfoot,'' in 2003.

Track listing

All compositions by Gordon Lightfoot, except where noted #"Drifters" - 3:27 #"My Little Love" - 4:08 #"Ringneck Loon" - 4:14 #"I Used to Be a Country Singer" (Steve McEown) - 3:16 #"Boathouse" - 4:13 #"Much to My Surprise" - 3:42 #"A Painter Passing Through" - 3:55 #"On

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" - 4:27 #" Red Velvet" (

Ian Tyson Ian Dawson Tyson (25 September 1933 – 29 December 2022) was a Canadian singer-songwriter who wrote several folk songs, including " Four Strong Winds" and " Someday Soon", and performed with partner Sylvia Tyson as the duo Ian & Sylvia. Ea ...

) - 2:37 #"Uncle Toad Said" - 3:29

Personnel

–

vocals Singing is the art of creating music with the voice. It is the oldest form of musical expression, and the human voice can be considered the first musical instrument. The definition of singing varies across sources. Some sources define sing ...

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, twelve and high-string guitars *Terry Clements – acoustic and

electric guitar An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external electric Guitar amplifier, sound amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar. It uses one or more pickup (music technology), pickups ...

s *

– electric and

mando-guitar An octave twelve is a type of 12-string guitar fitted with a short-scale neck and a small solid body. It is tuned one octave higher than a standard guitar, giving it the tonal range of a mandolin and enabling a guitarist to emulate the sound of ...

s on (5, 8) *Bill Dillon – electric guitar on (1, 2),

guitorgan Guitar Organ or GuitOrgan is a type of electric guitar with electronic organ components added, developed by Jennings Musical Industry (Dartford, Kent, UK) as Vox ''Guitar Organ'' at latest in 1965. Similar instrument, ''GuitOrgan'' was develop ...

on (3) *Wendell Ferguson – electric guitar on (4, 9) *John Lewis – electric guitar on (6) *Doug Johnson –

steel guitar A steel guitar () is any guitar played while moving a steel bar or similar hard object against plucked strings. The bar itself is called a "steel" and is the source of the name "steel guitar". The instrument differs from a conventional guitar i ...

on (9),

dobro Dobro () is an American brand of resonator guitars owned by Gibson and manufactured by its subsidiary Epiphone. The term "dobro" is also used as a generic term for any wood-bodied, single-cone resonator guitar. The Dobro was originally a gui ...

on (9) *Pee Wee Charles – pedal steel guitar on (6) *Rick Haynes –

bass guitar The bass guitar (), also known as the electric bass guitar, electric bass, or simply the bass, is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is similar in appearance and construction to an Electric guitar, electric but with a longer nec ...

*Mike Heffernan –

synthesizer A synthesizer (also synthesiser or synth) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis a ...

, keyboards *Barry Keane –

drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a percussion mallet, beater including attached or enclosed beaters or Rattle (percussion beater), rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or ...

*Lisa Logan on (4, 7, 9), Lisa Winn on (4), Bob Doidge on (4, 5, 7) –

backing vocals A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are us ...

*Willie P. Bennett –

harmonica The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock. The many types of harmonica incl ...

on (10) ** https://www.discogs.com/release/6226771-Gordon-Lightfoot-A-Painter-Passing-Through-

External links

Florian Bodenseher's fansite on Gordon Lightfoot
{{DEFAULTSORT:Painter Passing Through Gordon Lightfoot albums 1998 albums Reprise Records albums