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Insights: Gordon Lightfoot and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”

This song ranks as the greatest shipwreck ballad of all time. The performance by Lightfoot is unforgettable.

“Raised on Robbery” is the epitome of high art illuminating an unforgettable subject: poetry in motion disguised as rock and roll..

With Aretha, popular music achieves the status of high art and “A Song For You” is one of her finest, yet overlooked performances.

The great jazz and soul singer Nina Simone sang the song Jalacy Hawkins wrote, not the one that Screaming Jay murdered.

Elvis Presley was the greatest cultural force of the 20th century. Here is a brilliant example of his early work.

The music of Johnny Cash is as about as powerful a country music experience as you could wish for.