The Canadian singer-songwriter, who died on Monday at 84, brought his rueful baritone to memorable, melancholy material. By Rob Tannenbaum Bob Dylan once named Gordon Lightfoot one of his favorite ...
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 ...
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Gordon Lightfoot’s Haunting Tribute: How ‘The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald’ Became His Finest Work
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.
Gordon Lightfoot’s 1976 tune “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” is back on the Billboard charts.The renewed interest in the ...
This week's Trending Up looks at the unlikely revival of the five-decade-old story song, as well as a curious new dance smash ...
His rich baritone voice and songs like “Sundown,” “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” and “If You Could Read My Mind” made him a top artist of the 1970s. By William Grimes Gordon Lightfoot, the ...
Gordon Lightfoot, the Canadian singer-songwriter whose graceful and literate songwriting made him one of the most respected folk-rooted musicians to emerge in the 1960s, died on Monday in a Toronto ...
TORONTO — Gordon Lightfoot, the folk singer-songwriter known for “If You Could Read My Mind" and "Sundown" and for songs that told tales of Canadian identity, died Monday. He was 84. Representative ...
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