This is one of Lightfoot´s best and most popular albums, produced when he was at the height of his incredible popularity in the mid 1970s. For a while Lightfoot, like his fellow troubadours James Taylor, John Denver, and Van Morrison, could seemingly do nothing wrong. In fact, over a fifteen period, Gordon Lightfoot produced so many superior albums populated by such uniformly outstanding songs that we´ve become inured to the fact that he is such a singular, talented and singular talent. Every single song on this album is extremely well written, sung and arranged, from the opening "Race Among The Ruins" into the fantastically popular smash hit "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald" soft, wry, and thoughtful "I´m Not Supposed To Care" on into the balance of the album, which is consistently sweet, well-sung and artfully arranged. My personal favorites here are "The House You Live In, a captivating, poetically versed, and thoughtfully comp.