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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

The Lightfoot Band will play at the Iron Horse on April 24 at 7 p.m. Most of the band members are part of Gordon Lightfoot’s original touring band. Legendary Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon ...

For those that live or have lived around the American Great Lakes region, the story of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald is likely familiar. It was, to date, the largest ship to ever sink in those waters, ...

It happened every year on November 10: if you were listening to the radio anywhere in Michigan, you’d inevitably hear the wail of a guitar that seemed to speak in a human voice, a mournful invitation.

"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" was released in 1976, less than a year after the ship sank in Lake Superior. Gordon Lightfoot’s song peaked at number two on the Billboard chart that same year.

OSHKOSH (WLUK) - A 17-year old Oshkosh resident suffered non-life threatening injuries following a shooting Saturday nightnear the UW-Oshkosh campus.The suspec Suspect in shooting near UWO campus in ...

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There’s sadness knowing he’s no longer with us, but also excitement, joy and pride in continuing to play his songs the way he ...

Juno-winning singer-songwriter Ron Sexsmith will bring Gordon Lightfoot's songs to life in two shows at the National Music ...