A Painter Passing Through

A Painter Passing Through
Studio album by
Gordon Lightfoot
ReleasedMay 1, 1998
Recorded1996–1997
StudioGrant Avenue (Hamilton, Canada)
GenreFolk
Length37:28
LabelReprise
ProducerBob Doidge, Gordon Lightfoot
Gordon Lightfoot chronology
Waiting for You
(1993) 		A Painter Passing Through
(1998) 		Harmony
(2004)

A Painter Passing Through is the eighteenth studio album by Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot, released in 1998 on Reprise Records. It was his first album of original music in five years after Waiting for You, which had been his first since 1986's East of Midnight. Well-known record producer Daniel Lanois makes a guest appearance on the album. A Painter Passing Through is a live studio album.

The song "Drifters" was performed by Ron Sexsmith on the album, Beautiful: A Tribute to Gordon Lightfoot, in 2003.

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Track listing

All compositions by Gordon Lightfoot, except where noted

  1. "Drifters" - 3:27
  2. "My Little Love" - 4:08
  3. "Ringneck Loon" - 4:14
  4. "I Used to Be a Country Singer" (Steve McEown) - 3:16
  5. "Boathouse" - 4:13
  6. "Much to My Surprise" - 3:42
  7. "A Painter Passing Through" - 3:55
  8. "On Yonge Street" - 4:27
  9. "Red Velvet" (Ian Tyson) - 2:37
  10. "Uncle Toad Said" - 3:29

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