A song about one of the Great Lakes’ most famous shipwrecks became one of Gordon Lightfoot’s biggest hits.

This song is still a classic over 60 years later.

Bob Dylan once said: “I can’t think of any Gordon Lightfoot song I don’t like. Every time I hear a song of his, it’s like I wish it would last forever.” On his touring in 2019, he said, “The tour was ...

Gordon Lightfoot was behind many of the iconic folk-rock songs that defined the genre. He’s without a doubt one of Canada’s greatest songwriters of all time, and younger fans continue to find fresh ...

When ordinary language fails us in the face of tragedy, musicians often seem to reach for a melody instead, and that is what happened in Canada.

I learned to listen to music at a low volumeRecently, I bought a small sub-audio system. The first thing I realized there was the pleasure of "listening to music at an extremely low volume." I keep ...

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 Days Festival Committee is inviting singers 18 and under to enter a new youth singing competition in Orillia, ...

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." ...

So often it’s a girl — in this case, one named Beth, who Eric Elison was sweet on in high school and introduced him to Gordon Lightfoot before the 1974 “Sundown” album came out. “We went to her house ...