Wow funny thing...I just forced my family to listen to “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” at full volume on the way home from pizza tonight. Hubby had never heard it even tho he was born in ‘74. Weird.
It’s not a favorite of mine, to say the least (kazoo-like nasal vocal is a constant of G.L.’s body of work) — but I love the cadence of “the churchbells chimed, they rang 29 times”.
Carefree Highway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewhM7I9gD4U
Byrds founder Gene Clark did a cover of one of GL’s, but it suffers a bit from GC’s idea of what constituted a good arrangement. I like his songwriting, but Clark was also lucky to be associated with strong-willed talents also in that band, who were better arrangers than composers for the most part.
If You Could Read My Mind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj21GwxL0k4