Duluth News Tribune

'The perfect song': Remembering Gordon Lightfoot and the Edmund Fitzgerald

David James Carlson leads the Gordon Lightfoot Tribute Band. He knew the late singer-songwriter personally, and remembers ...

Gordon Lightfoot immortalized the Edmund Fitzgerald. This is what the song got wrong.

Gordon Lightfoot’s The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald was released less than a year after the ship sank and became an instant ...
mlive

How Gordon Lightfoot’s ‘The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald’ became a cultural phenomenon

First come the mournful notes - an electric guitar layered over a 12-string acoustic. Then come the haunting lyrics.
Rolling Stone

Gordon Lightfoot Read About a Shipwreck. Then He Wrote One of Music’s Most Unusual Hit Singles

On the night of Nov. 10, 1975, Gordon Lightfoot was perched in the attic of his Toronto home, working on a song. By then, the 36-year-old was already one of the most successful figures of the ...
Duluth News Tribune

Front Row Seat: When 'Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald' hit Duluth airwaves

Dave Strandberg, the first DJ to play Gordon Lightfoot's song in the city — and, likely, one of the first in the country — said "the phones basically lit up" when he dropped the needle. A detail view ...
FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul on MSN

Edmund Fitzgerald song by Gordon Lightfoot: What it got wrong

This clip from DOC 9's Gales of November: Diving the Edmund Fitzgerald details the legacy of Gordon Lightfoot's song. Contributor: The Constitution is clear when it comes to Trump's tariffs ...