On paper, it should never have been a hit record. But despite the odds stacked against it — the 6-minute length, the somber subject matter, the last-minute recording session — “The Wreck of the Edmund ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

A legendary band opened a weekend dedicated to a legendary Orillian Thursday night. The Lightfoot Band played to an Orillia Opera House full of dedicated fans, who often started clapping at the first ...

This conceptually ambitious, if uneven feature from Alejandro Amenábar portrays pre-fame scribe Miguel Cervantes as a Spanish hostage in a 16th-century Algiers. Those not expecting a more ...

A band of musicians who performed for decades with the late Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, known for his poetic lyrical storytelling on songs like If You Could Read My Mind, is ...