Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lightfoot felt that he was getting close on his sea shanty melody, which seemed to fit his subject’s somber and mysterious mood, ...
All Live is taken from a series of shows that Gordon Lightfoot played at Toronto’s Massey Hall between 1998 and 2001. The 75-year-old was announced Tuesday as the next recipient of the SOCAN Lifetime ...
Without Gordon Lightfoot’s ballad, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald might have faded into history alongside thousands of other Great Lakes wrecks. He was inspired to write the song after reading the first ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On paper, it should never have been a hit record. But despite the odds stacked against it — the 6-minute length, the somber ...
The Mariners' Church in Detroit will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck. Gordon Lightfoot's 1976 ballad is inextricably linked to the maritime tragedy that killed 29 ...
Most songs about historical events are written many years after the events themselves. It takes a while to know what events will be consequential and which ones will fade from memory. The Edmund ...
“The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down, of the big lake they called Gitche Gumee” - From “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” First come the mournful notes - an electric guitar layered over a ...
Monday marks the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, a tragedy on Lake Superior that claimed the lives of 29 men. In the days following the calamity, songwriter Gordon ...
David James Carlson leads the Gordon Lightfoot Tribute Band. He knew the late singer-songwriter personally, and remembers what Lightfoot said about why he wrote "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald." ...
The Lightfoot Band are the seasoned musicians who collaborated with Gordon on his world-famous recordings and toured extensively with him here in North America and internationally for many decades - ...
were sold off one by one in a six-hour live auction by A. H. Wilkens Auctions and Appraisals. Among the objects for sale were a guitar strap made from real snakeskin, a taxidermied tiger rug ($2,328).