Gordon Lightfoot

Would Gordon Lightfoot just make a sex tape, or go to rehab, or adopt a baby from a developing nation or something? Because we really hate invoking his name only on sad occasions, such as a death hoax, or today's......

On “Drift,” his full-length debut, this Pasadena producer delivers an impressionistic but precise blur of tenebrous dub-step, glitch-hop and Warp Records electronica. Tonight he’s playing with chillwave producer Toro y Moi, and folktronic...

"Morgan Freeman dead" is, well, a lie. A fraudulent tweet reading "Breaking News: actor Morgan Freeman has died in his Burbank home," purportedly sent by CNN, was propagated Thursday afternoon, eventually eliciting a response from CNN denying it was the.....

Owen Wilson death report is a hoax. Adam Sandler is not dead. Aretha Franklin is not dead. Charlie Sheen is not dead. Aretha Franklin is not dead. None of them were killed snowboarding this week -- and did we mention Owen Wilson isn't dead?...

BOSTON -- Mary Travers, one part of the folk trio Peter, Paul, and Mary, who used beautiful, tranquil harmonies to convey the angst and turmoil of the Vietnam antiwar movement, racial discrimination and more, died after a yearslong battle with leukemia....

by Mark Silva Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called honah lee, Little jackie paper loved that rascal puff, And brought him strings and sealing wax and other fancy......

Tim McGraw sharply criticized Curb Records about this time last year for issuing a third "greatest hits" collection from the country star rather than release this album, which sat on a shelf for nearly two years after it was completed.......

by Mark Silva Try getting this song out of your head, today: "The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead When......

Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Gordon Lightfoot... sure. But who else belongs on the list of the 50 most significant singer/songwriters in folk music in the last 50 years? Program host Rich Warren will offer his nominations and play their songs......

Rich Warren's 50 most significant singer-songwriters of folk in the last 50 years, in alphabetical order, as presented on last night's "Midnight Special" broadcast of WFMT-FM 98.7: 1. Ben Bedford (Lincoln’s Man) 2. Eric Bogle (And the Band Played...

Mary Travers, the clarion-voiced female third of the quintessential folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary whose harmony-laden recordings of politically minded songs by Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger ushered them to the top of the sales charts in the 1960s, died...

The Complete Civil War Road Trip Guide Countryman Press, $19.95 In this mammoth guide to Civil War sites, author Michael Weeks visited more than 400 places and drove thousands of miles. Weeks' enthusiasm for his subject in this vast undertaking shows on...