'The perfect song': Remembering Gordon Lightfoot and the Edmund Fitzgerald

'The perfect song': Remembering Gordon Lightfoot and the Edmund Fitzgerald

DULUTH — If you notice that David James Carlson kind of looks like Gordon Lightfoot, you're not the first to do so. "People would always say, 'Are you Gordon's brother?'" Carlson remembered. "He would come over, put his arm around my shoulder, shaking me, kind of laughing. He'd say, 'Yeah, he's my little brother!'" Carlson met Lightfoot in Minneapolis in 1978. "We just hit it off," Carlson remembered. "We talked for like an hour at Northrop, aft…