![]() ![]() Part of the value of the songs is contained in their style. Feel free to use the material as needed, but don't edit or otherwise alter the performances. ![]() It was more of an aural academic publication intended for an audience in Michigan and around the Great Lakes where the events in the songs took place. ![]() My own performances are now fifty years old and the album was never considered a commercial venture. The album has long been out of print but, as it was partly intended to be used in schools in their teaching of Michigan history, I thought it might gain a bit longer usefulness by adding it to the wealth of information on the World Wide Web.Īll of the songs are in public domain. As luck would have it, Western Michigan University had an excellent FM radio station (WMUK) and was just beginning the publication of phonograph recordings, the first of local poets and, the third release, the recording now available on this website. So, it seemed natural to research the folk music associated with Michigan, songs about the lumbering and shipping of its past. I lived in Michigan for a dozen years from the late 1950's at the time I was most interested in American folk music. ![]()
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