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, ...

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The Lightfoot Band will play at the Iron Horse on April 24 at 7 p.m. Most of the band members are part of Gordon Lightfoot’s original touring band. Legendary Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon ...

Gordon Lightfoot, the 78-year-old singer behind hits like If I Could Read Your Mind, Sundown, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and Carefree Highway, performs at Fraze Pavilion in Kettering on Monday ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On paper, it should never have been a hit record. But despite the odds stacked against it — the 6-minute length, the somber ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Gordon Lightfoot's "If You Could Read My Mind" breaks back into the ...

STURGEON BAY (WLUK) -- It's been 50 years since the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald in the Canadian waters of Lake Superior, taking its crew of 29 with her. The cargo ship's home port was ...

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 ...

There’s sadness knowing he’s no longer with us, but also excitement, joy and pride in continuing to play his songs the way he ...

If you could read Gordon Lightfoot's mind, you might discover how the Canadian singer-songwriter has been able to entertain audiences for nearly eight decades. Maybe you'd get a little insight into ...