Twenty-nine sailors drowned when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975. The ship ...

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

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

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

(WXYZ) — The now-famous guitar chords lead into the opening lyrics: “The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down, of the big lake, they called Gitche Gumee ...