Gordon Lightfoot - BBC in Concert, Royal Albert Hall, London, Britain, 6-4-1971

Gordon Lightfoot's career has curiously lacked live albums from his golden era of the 1960s and 1970s. He did release one live album in 1969, but it was early in his career and mostly had new songs on it, so it contained few of his classics.

In the early 1970s, the BBC has a TV series called "In Concert" that featured many great artists doing hour or half hour shows. Luckily, Lightfoot got a full hour. I found the video of his show (broadcast in early 1972 but recorded in June 1971), converted it to mp3, and cut it into individual tracks. (Unfortunately, I often had to cut the track right in the middle of the applause, since he had a habit of starting the next song while people were still clapping.)

For the show, Lightfoot is only accompanied by a bass player and lead guitarist, allowing one to hear his songs without the orchestration and/or drumming that sometimes occurred on his studio albums.

This album is an hour and four minutes long.

01 Summer Side of Life (Gordon Lightfoot)
02 Saturday Clothes (Gordon Lightfoot)
03 For Lovin' Me (Gordon Lightfoot)
04 Affair on Eighth Avenue (Gordon Lightfoot)
05 If You Could Read My Mind (Gordon Lightfoot)
06 talk (Gordon Lightfoot)
07 Steel Rail Blues (Gordon Lightfoot)
08 Your Love's Return (Gordon Lightfoot)
09 Ten Degrees and Getting Colder (Gordon Lightfoot)
10 Early Morning Rain (Gordon Lightfoot)
11 Farewell Nova Scotia (Gordon Lightfoot)
12 talk (Gordon Lightfoot)
13 Miquel (Gordon Lightfoot)
14 Me and Bobby McGee (Gordon Lightfoot)
15 talk (Gordon Lightfoot)
16 Nous Vivons Ensemble (Gordon Lightfoot)
17 Minstrel of the Dawn (Gordon Lightfoot)
18 Talking in Your Sleep (Gordon Lightfoot)
19 Canadian Railroad Trilogy (Gordon Lightfoot)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16693281/GORDNLGHTFT1971_BBCncrtRoylAlbrtHll__6-4-1971_atse.zip.html

If you want to watch the show, just search for his name and "in concert" on YouTube. I made the album cover from a still shot taken from the video.