Crucial Track for May 1, 2025
#"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" by Gordon Lightfoot
Share a song that tells a great story.
Well, I'm a Minnesotan and I was listening to radio stations when this song was released in 1976. As a very young man at the time, this song hit hard.
It is a sad song about [a wreck on the Great Lake they call Gitchi-gami}(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Edmund_Fitzgerald)
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I just reread the Wikipedia article about the song and I learned some facts, including that the melody was taken from an Irish dirge. It occurs to me that the famous guitar sound would also work on traditional acoustic instruments. Forgive me if there are covers of the song done just that way.