Today in Music History for Nov. 10: ...

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." ...

Millions grew up listening to Gordon Lightfoot's music — but the man behind "Sundown" was deeply complicated. From his distaste for speaking openly despite being a public figure to his claim that he ...

Gordon Lightfoot and his band recorded the "little ditty" in a Toronto studio in December 1975, just weeks after the shipwreck that took 29 lives.

“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 ...

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 ...