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Better story teller than Edmund Fitzgerald?

There was a thread on A'gon about the most perfect song.  We had reasons for picking various, but for me it was Gordong Lightfoot's Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

Perhaps it featured an aspect of song writing that no one else much cared for:  A deep and detailed story in the song.

So I ask you, A'goners, what songs are as good or better at telling a story of a historical event? 

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rfagon
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Two performers come to mind:

- James Keelaghan (with Oscar Lopez)/ Compadres  album,  playing a great rendition of “Cold Missouri Waters” and “Red River Rising”;

- Laura Smith/ Everything is Moving album, playing “Lonely Waterloo” and “Magdalene Mc Gillivray”

I had the good fortune to see Laura Smith, accompanied by a piano, give a very moving performance of her album at a little church NE of Wolfville Nova Scotia, not long before she passed away (too soon).

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