Comments on: MONDAY MASHUP: Great Lakes Music Map

By: LIsa

LIsa — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:19:28 +0000

I love Sufjan Stevens and Bon Iver. Thanks for tying their music back for me! Let’s remember also John Prine, “Lake Marie”

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:17:14 +0000

I love Sufjan Stevens and have for years! Thanks for tying his music back for me! great article.

By: Bob Williams

Bob Williams — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:46:59 +0000

I saw Russ Franzen, a Great Lakes folk singer, singing original songs about the Great Lakes at the Marblehead Lighthouse Festival this fall. Most of the songs were from around Michigan with some from Lake Erie.

By: Pam

Pam — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:58:40 +0000

The Michigan Song by Joe Reilly….on his Planting Gardens CD(September, 2006)is great!

“Michigan is the state where the lakes are great.”

It’s a political and humorous look at the politics of water in the Great Lakes.

http://www.joereilly.com

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:30:37 +0000

“Laughing River” by Greg Brown: “I reckon where I’m goin’/I might need me different clothes/Way up in Michigan/Where the Laughing River flows.” I suppose he really means the Laughing Whitefish River, but oh well – Hemingway wasn’t really writing about the Two Hearted River in “Big Two-Hearted River,” and the song will melt your face either way.

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Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:09:26 +0000

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By: Kaitlyn Grace

Kaitlyn Grace — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:56:31 +0000

The (Shipped) Gold Standard
Fall Out Boy

“Plant palm trees on Lake Michigan before it gets cold”

By: David Poulson

David Poulson — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:32:16 +0000

David Jude is a research scientist who sounded the alarm for the round goby invasion of the Great Lakes. It came after he discovered its cousin, the tube-nosed goby, in 1990 in the St. Clair River.
He wrote and sings The Galloping Goby Blues. Information here: http://greatlakeswiki.org/index.php/Professor_singing_the_blues_about_invasive_species

The song is here: http://www.greatlakeswiki.org/images/b/b8/GGBlues.mp3

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:29:46 +0000

That’s Him! Thta’s the Guy! – Small Town, Big Lake You can download for free at: http://www.last.fm/music/That%27s+Him%21+That%27s+The+Guy%21/_/Small+Town+Big+Lake

Also, TH!TTG! Michigan June on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5Mj_b4sC9k

“Lord when you bury me/let it be a Michigan June”

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:51:22 +0000

Tom Waits – Gun Street Girl

Waits mentions Waukegan, a city north of Chicago on Lake Michigan, in the first verse:

“He left for Waukegan at the slamming of a door…”