Jerry Popiel, a Coast Guard member and Cleveland musician, wrote a song about the “Marine Electric” disaster that killed 31 people. The ship had inspired another songwriter to write a song, but he ...

Minneapolis-based David Huckfelt, whose vocals evoke a folk-music version of Willie Nile, has previously interpreted the work of other composers, such as on his excellent sophomore solo album, 2021’s ...

TURN on the news and you can be forgiven for thinking the world is going to hell in a handcart. But one singer is refusing to ...

For Kim Gordon, today is the day for “Not Today,” a song off the former Sonic Youth member’s upcoming third solo album, Play Me. The full-length will come out on March 13. In the video for the song ...

Kim Gordon has announced a new album called ‘Play Me’, and released the expressive lead single ‘Not Today’. Check it out below. According to a new press release, the record is both “distilled and ...

Newspaper clippings donated to the Lake Superior Maritime Visitor Center in Duluth recount the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald on Nov. 10, 1975.

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. The gales of November came early—and in ...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- Associated Press reporter Harry Atkins was far from Lake Superior on Nov. 10, 1975, "when the gales of November came early." But his news coverage the following day of the ...

Like the tragic story it’s based on, “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” has a knack for getting stuck in people’s heads and haunting its listeners. That’s essentially what happened to Jeremy ...

Not only is it more geographically precise — the ship loaded at Superior’s towering ore docks, not “some mill” — it’s just as easy to sing. The meter is virtually the same. Lightfoot’s haunting ballad ...

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 ...

It happened every year on November 10: if you were listening to the radio anywhere in Michigan, you’d inevitably hear the wail of a guitar that seemed to speak in a human voice, a mournful invitation.