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"Carefree Highway":
The song's name comes from the name of Arizona State Route 74 north of Phoenix: Lightfoot -
"I thought it would make a good title for a song. I wrote it down, put it
in my suitcase and it stayed there for eight months." The song employs
"Carefree Highway" as a metaphor for the state of mind where the
singer seeks escape from his ruminations over a long ago failed affair with a
woman named Ann. Lightfoot has stated that Ann actually was the name of a woman
Lightfoot romanced when he was age 22: "It [was] one of those situations
where you meet that one woman who knocks you out and then leaves you standing
there and says she's on her way."
"Sundown":
The song's lyrics seem to describe a troubled romantic relationship, with the
narrator recounting an affair with a "hard-loving woman [who's] got me
feeling mean." There are
rumours that "Sundown" was inspired by Lightfoot's then girlfriend,
Cathy Smith, later more infamously known for her involvement in the 1982
drug-related death of actor John Belushi.
A - Carefree Highway (3:03)
Written by: Gordon Lightfoot / Produced by: Lenny Waronker / Engineerd by: Lee Herschberg
B - Sundown (3:32)
Written by: Gordon Lightfoot / Produced by: Lenny Waronker / Engineerd by: Lee Herschberg
Label: Reprise Records
Genre: Pop
Catalog# GRE0111
℗ 1974
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