BY DECEMBER OF 1975, Lightfoot felt he had enough songs ready for his next album, Summertime Dream. It was time to gather his ...

Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours? Last fall, as we hit the anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald disaster, I sat down to play Gordon Lightfoot’s epic ...

“The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald” by Michigan author John U. Bacon honors the 50th ...

Gordon Lightfoot was one of the greatest songwriters of his generation, with poignant melodies set to words that touched on everything from highways and hilltops, to lovers to loneliness. But when it ...

Gordon Lightfoot, Canada's legendary folk singer-songwriter whose hits including "Early Morning Rain" and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" told a tale of Canadian identity that was exported ...

When the waves turn the minutes to hours? That evocative lyric — some claim it to be the greatest in popular music — comes from Gordon Lightfoot’s epic retelling of a Lake Superior disaster, “The ...

It feels like Gordon Lightfoot has always been with me. I mean, was there ever a time when “Old Dan’s Records,” “Canadian Railroad Trilogy,” “If You Could Read My Mind,” “Sundown” and “Cotton Jenny” ...

Gordon Lightfoot, the Candian singer-songwriter known for such 1970s hits as “If You Could Read My Mind” and “Sundown,” has died at the age of 84. Lightfoot’s death was announced on his official ...

Gordon Lightfoot, the Canadian singer-songwriter whose enduring folk hits included “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” and “Sundown,” died Monday, his spokesperson told CNN. He was 84. Lightfoot died ...

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