Gordon Lightfoot - Sit Down Young Stranger (aka If You Could Read My Mind) (1970)
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Side 1
"Minstrel of the Dawn" – 3:26
"Me and Bobby McGee" – 3:38 (Kris Kristofferson, Fred Foster)
"Approaching Lavender" – 2:56
"Saturday Clothes" – 3:20
"Cobwebs & Dust" – 3:20
"Poor Little Allison" – 2:30
Side 2
"Sit Down Young Stranger" – 3:26
"If You Could Read My Mind" – 3:48
"Baby It's Alright" – 2:58
"Your Love's Return (Song for Stephen Foster)" – 3:55
"The Pony Man" – 3:27
Gordon Lightfoot Band Members / Musicians
Gordon Lightfoot - guitar, piano, vocals
Red Shea - guitar
Rick Haynes - bass
Ry Cooder - slide guitar on "Me and Bobby McGee", mandolin on "Cobwebs and Dust"
Van Dyke Parks - harmonium on "Cobwebs and Dust"
John Sebastian - electric guitar on "Baby It's Alright", autoharp on "Saturday Clothes", harmonica on "The Pony Man"
Nick DeCaro - string arrangements on "Poor Little Allison", "If You Could Read My Mind" and "Your Love's Return"
Randy Newman - string arrangement on "Minstrel of the Dawn" and "Approaching Lavender"
Kris Kristofferson was rumored to have provided harmony vocals on "Me and Bobby McGee"
Gary Brandt, Lee Herschberg - engineer
Barry Feinstein, Tom Wilkes - design, photography
Sit Down Young Stranger is Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot's 6th 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. The album itself reached #12 on the Billboard 200 chart. In Canada, the album was on the charts from April 18, 1970, to November 27, 1971. It peaked at #8 on March 13, 1971 after an earlier peak at #12 on June 20, 1970. Its last 24 weeks were spent in the 90s, except for appearances at #88 and #100.
