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Really nice spread in today's The Minnesota Star Tribune on the Gordon Lightfoot song with an article chock full of choice bits, by Greta Kaul. Photos by Alex Kormann. #EdmundFitzgerald50
Big photo of interior of Anchor Bar in Superior, Wisconsin with several smaller photos. last portion of article the accounts of the last ship to communicate with the Edmund Fitzgerald. How the ship sank remains mysterious, which Lightfoot nods to in the song. The legend lives on Whatever happened to the Fitz 50 years ago, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" has helped its legend live on along the Great Lakes. The walls of the Anchor Bar and Grill in Superior, Wis., are full of maritime memorabilia. Some of the Fitz's crew were there the night before they left port for the last time, said owner Adam Anderson. "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" is on the bar's juke-box, and patrons play it frequently - sometimes again and again, Anderson said. "Wehear it and we're like, here we go." Hansen, the Hjordis' cap-tain, admires the song but grid it gets old - like when it wafts over the lake from a Grand Marais bar as he's bringing nervous passengers out: "The only thing worse would be the 'Gilligan's Island' song." Scriven, the lighthouse keeper, hears it streaming from Split Rock visitors' phones. There isn't a day that goes by that he doesn't hear about the Edmund Fitzgerald in some shape or form, which he attributes to the song. "I do think that the song immortalized the sinking in a way that is a good thing from a historical perspective," he said. "It keeps us talking about it. It keeps us talking about the dangers of Lake Superior. It keeps us talking about the dangers of shipping and what these people are going through and to remember that." photo captions: MEMORIES REMAIN Clockwise from top left, the Anchor Bar & Grill in Superior, Wis. The Michipicoten, which launched in 1952, six years before the Edmund Fitzgerald, moored in Superior on Oct. 30. Traxx Nelson-Kavajecz sings "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" at Superior Tavern. Lake Superior waves crash near the Split Rock Lighthouse.
November 9, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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This They Might Be Giants TONIGHT SHOW performance of "Birdhouse In Your Soul" from 1990 remains firmly lodged in my noggin thanks to the Tonight Show Band's full commitment and Doc Severinsen's incredible trumpeting... It took an already great song and made it transcendent.
August 23, 2025 at 8:44 AM