iPod Essentials #107: "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"--Gordon Lightfoot

I will be hearing this song performed live when Gordon Lightfoot comes to my town on November 11.

This song haunts me every time I hear it. A true story about the sinking of the freighter The Edmund Fitzgerald on Lake Superior in 1975, Lightfoot's song deals with the final hours of these 29 men. The guitar motif that bridges each section of the song clenches the haunting.

Gordon Lightfoot has one of the most distinctive voices in folk rock.