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<h1><em>Summer Side of Life</em></h1><p>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</p><p><br></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/fY0b1GU.jpg"></p><p>artwork by jmjiloveyou</p><p><br></p><p><strong><em>Summer Side of Life</em></strong> is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Canadian</a> singer-songwriter <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Lightfoot" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Gordon Lightfoot</a>'s sixth studio album. It was released in 1971 on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reprise_Records" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Reprise Records</a> Label. The album marked a departure from the sound Lightfoot had established on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sit_Down_Young_Stranger" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Sit Down Young Stranger</em></a> in its use of drums and electric instrumentation, to which he would later return in the second half of the decade. “Redwood Hill” contains elements of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluegrass_music" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">bluegrass music</a>.</p><p>The album reached #38 on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_magazine" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">pop chart</a>. "Summer Side of Life" peaked at #98 on the pop singles chart while "Talking in Your Sleep" peaked at #64. The singles reached #21 and #19 respectively in Canada.</p><h2>The track "Cotton Jenny" would later be covered by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Murray" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Anne Murray</a>, for whom it would provide a top-twenty single on the U.S. country singles chart. The song "Love and Maple Syrup" was covered by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Mitchell" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Taylor Mitchell</a> in 2009. She lost her life in a coyote assault later that year. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanci_Griffith" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Nanci Griffith</a> covered "10 Degrees and Getting Colder" on her 1993 album, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Other_Voices,_Other_Rooms_(Nanci_Griffith_album)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Other Voices, Other Rooms</em></a>. The song had previously been recorded by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._D._Crowe" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">J. D. Crowe</a> &amp; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_South_(band)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The New South</a> on their <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._D._Crowe_%26_The_New_South" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">eponymous album</a> in 1975.</h2><h2><br></h2><h2>Track listing</h2><p>All compositions by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Lightfoot" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Gordon Lightfoot</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_Side_of_Life#cite_note-mb-3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[3]</a></p><h3>Side 1</h3><ol><li>"10 Degrees and Getting Colder" – 2:43</li><li>"Miguel" – 4:12</li><li>"Go My Way" – 2:13</li><li>"Summer Side of Life" – 4:05</li><li>"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_Jenny" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Cotton Jenny</a>" – 3:26</li><li>"Talking in Your Sleep" – 2:56</li></ol><h3>Side 2</h3><ol><li>"Nous Vivons Ensemble" – 3:45</li><li>"Same Old Loverman" – 3:21</li><li>"Redwood Hill" – 2:48</li><li>"Love and Maple Syrup" – 3:13</li><li>"Cabaret" – 5:49</li></ol><p><br></p><p><br></p>