Did She Mention My Name/Back Here On Earth (Beat Goes On)
Lightfoot's romanticism has always been his trump.  He captures wanderlust, love's longing, and unfulfilled dreams as well as any songwriter of his generation.  And though it's tempting to call him a confessionalist, his best songs have a timeless folk quality, making them certain hits for artists like Marty Robbins and Peter, Paul & Mary, as well as near standards in bluegrass circles.  This 1968 album finds him experimenting with a slightly bigger sound and offering his strongest political tune "Black Day in July" and the whistful "Mountains and Marian," not to mention the title cut, recorded memorably by Frank Christian and J. D. Crowe and the New South.--Roy Francis Kasten