| Old Dan's Records | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Gordon Lightfoot |
| Cover: | Album_Old_Dan's_Records.jpg |
| Released: | November 1972 |
| Recorded: | 1972 |
| Genre: | Folk |
| Length: | 33:31 |
| Label: | Reprise |
| Producer: | Lenny Waronker |
| Prev Title: | Don Quixote |
| Prev Year: | 1972 |
| Next Title: | Sundown |
| Next Year: | 1974 |
Old Dan's Records is Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot's eighth studio album, released in 1972 on the Reprise Records label. The album reached #1 in Canada on the RPM national album chart on November 5, 1972, and remained there for three weeks.[1] In the U.S., it peaked at #95 on the pop chart.
The album marks a continued evolution in Lightfoot's sound as he begins to add country influences to his standard folk sound with the help of the banjo, dobro and steel guitar. Lightfoot would continue to use these country influences in his music until the early 1980s.
Despite its 1972 year of initial release, the album was nominated for and won the 1974 Juno Award for "Folk Album of the Year". Lightfoot also won a Juno that year as "Folk Singer of the Year".[2]
All compositions by Gordon Lightfoot
"Special thanks to Bill Richards and Guido Basso and members of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra"