There isn't a baby boomer out there who could have missed these iconic classic rock ballads from the year 1976.

This song is still a classic over 60 years later.

In honor of six decades of music, here are 10 of Gordon Lightfoot's finest moments. By Chuck Dauphin There are few careers in popular music more versatile than that of Gordon Lightfoot. The native ...

A song about one of the Great Lakes’ most famous shipwrecks became one of Gordon Lightfoot’s biggest hits.

Gordon Lightfoot was behind many of the iconic folk-rock songs that defined the genre. He’s without a doubt one of Canada’s greatest songwriters of all time, and younger fans continue to find fresh ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

David James Carlson leads the Gordon Lightfoot Tribute Band. He knew the late singer-songwriter personally, and remembers what Lightfoot said about why he wrote "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald." ...

"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" was released in 1976, less than a year after the ship sank in Lake Superior. Gordon Lightfoot’s song peaked at number two on the Billboard chart that same year.

I learned to listen to music at a low volumeRecently, I bought a small sub-audio system. The first thing I realized there was the pleasure of "listening to music at an extremely low volume." I keep ...