Two Departed Stars Remembered in 2025
Willie Nelson, Bobbie Nelson and Paul English backstage in New Orleans in July 2014  Two great musicians who were always 20-feet from stardom - to borrow the title of an Oscar-winning documentary – would have found this year of particular significance had they both not passed. Drummer Paul English and pianist Bobbie Nelson played in Willie Nelson’s famous band, The Family, for decades. But, like most backing musicians, their profiles were somewhat confined to font-size 10 in
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50 Years Since Shipwreck which Inspired BalladÂ
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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