For the great field collected songs of the Great Lakes on a fine album with great notes, see __Songs Of The Great Lakes__ collected from many people by the late Canadian folklorist, Edith Fowke (pronounced appropriately enough "folk"). [Folkways Records 1964---FM 4018-------available from Smithsonian-Folkways as a cassette.] This is as close to the "source" as we can get from here in 1999 "The Bigler" is here along with "The E.C. Roberts" also called "Red Iron Ore", "The Maggie Hunter", "The Dreadnaught", "James Bird", "THe Fayette Brown", "The Antelope", "Homeward Bound", "Cumberland's Crew" (2 versions), "The Merrimac", "The Persia's Crew" and "The Asia".

Many of these (and more) are recorded by Lee Murdock on his various CDs. His latest CD (a double one) __Lee Murdock In Concert---GREAT LAKES CHRONICLE__ with the Blue Water Band and solo. Order from : Depot Recordings-------Box 11----Kaneville, IL 60144-0011

www.mcs.com/~jmurdock/lee/murdock.html

Art Thieme