RIP Gordon Lightfoot

Gordon Lightfoot, 1974. (Photo by Gijsbert Hanekroot/Redferns/Getty Images)

I used to joke that having “The Wreck On the Edmund Fitzgerald” on the jukebox was a requirement for any bar in Wisconsin.

And indeed, the further north you go, the harder pressed you might be to find one without it. Few songs and events have caught & kept people’s attention like …