Gordon Lightfoot turned a brief news item about a Great Lakes tragedy into one of the most haunting songs ever written — an elegy that still echoes 50 years later.

A.H. Wilkens Auctions & Appraisals set to host sale featuring instruments, awards, personal effects of late music legend from ...

Gordon Lightfoot and his band recorded the "little ditty" in a Toronto studio in December 1975, just weeks after the ...

PRNewswire/ - A.H. Wilkens Auctions & Appraisals will hold an auction of items from the estate of Canadian music legend Gordon Lightfoot, offering fans and musical historians a chance to glimpse into ...

The ship, commanded by renowned Great Lakes Captain Ernest McSorley, left from Superior, Wisconsin on November 9 carrying a load of iron ore to the steel mill on Zug Island, Michigan. But the next day ...

Pieces up for bids include his iconic 1948 Martin D-18 guitar that is now considered part of Canadian music heritage.

Less than a year after the American cargo carrier SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in the Great Lakes in November 1975, the late Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot released a folk-rock ballad titled ...

Rush singer/bassist Geddy Lee and guitarist Alex Lifeson made a surprise appearance Thursday night at “Celebrating Gordon Lightfoot,” the star-studded tribute concert to the legendary Canadian ...

Only a few expeditions have made the journey down to the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, which is now designated a protected ...

For those that live or have lived around the American Great Lakes region, the story of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald is likely ...