50 Years Since Shipwreck which Inspired Ballad
Gordon Lightfoot's ballad "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald " transformed a story about just another shipwreck into international folklore It is now 50 years since the freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank on Lake Superior on November 10, 1975, with the loss of 29 lives. So what, you might rightfully ask? For there have been greater shipwrecks in peacetime through the years, with far bigger loss of life. True! But few have been immortalized in song like the Edmund Fitzgera
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Tami Neilson Gets Junk and Disorderly
Tami Neilson and Brett Adams launch G igs for Gaza series at Auckland's Junk & Disorderly Bikes, buckets and boots hang from the ceiling. Antiquated TV’s perch on bookshelves filled with old LP’s. In the middle of all this is a makeshift stage. And standing there is Canadian country-soul star Tami Neilson. It’s a long way from the Ryman Auditorium or alongside Willie Nelson at his July 4 th Texas concert. For the New Zealand-based singer-songwriter was performing at an Auc
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