Gordon Lightfoot wrote one of the most iconic songs about a historical event, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald." ...

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

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

In the early 1970s, Gordon Lightfoot met a woman named Cathy Smith. They began a relationship, and the song “Sundown” documented their up-and-down love affair. At the time, Smith was a well-known ...