Back Here on Earth

Infobox Album |
Name = Back Here on Earth
Type = Album
Artist = Gordon Lightfoot


Released = November, 1968
Recorded = September, 1968
Genre = Folk
Length = 35:06
Label = United Artists
Producer = Elliot Mazer
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:jzr9282c054a link]
Last album = "Did She Mention My Name"
(1968)
This album = "Back Here on Earth"
(1968)
Next album = "Sunday Concert"
(1969)

"Back Here On Earth" is Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot's fourth studio album, released in 1968 on the United Artists label.

It has been suggested that Lightfoot chose the title because the album marked a return to his folk roots after his experimentation with orchestration on his previous album "Did She Mention My Name?". Apart from his eponymous debut album, it is Lightfoot's only studio album not to derive its title from a song on the album.

"Back Here on Earth" was Lightfoot's last studio recording on the United Artists label which he left after releasing the live album, "Sunday Concert", in 1969.

Track listing

#"Long Way Back Home" – 3:02
#"Unsettled Ways" – 1:51
#"Long Thin Dawn" – 2:57
#"Bitter Green" – 2:42
#"The Circle Is Small" – 3:26
#"Marie Christine" – 2:54
#"Cold Hands From New York" – 5:16
#"Affair on 8th Avenue" – 3:25
#"Don't Beat Me Down" – 3:16
#"The Gypsy" – 2:45
#"If I Could" – 4:02

All compositions by Lightfoot.

Personnel

*Gordon Lightfoot - 6 & 12 string acoustic guitar
*Red Shea - Lead acoustic guitar
*John Stockfish - Bass

External links

* [http://www.lightfoot.ca/backlist.htm Album lyrics and chords]