Lee Murdock, The Lost Lake Sailors - 1h 4m 57s

Tracks & Durations

1. The Crack Schooner Moonlight	4:20
2. Saint Martin Island	7:57
3. The Wreck of the Erie Bell	3:39
4. Follow the Drinkin' Gourd	2:51
5. When the Willie Went Down	4:32
6. Perry's Victory on Lake Erie	5:03
7. The Shanty Boy on the Big Eau Clair	4:39
8. Lament for the Lost Lake Sailors	6:10
9. The Ward Line	4:44
10. The Mermaid of Ontario	2:57
11. Charles Conrad on the S. S. Badger	5:15
12. Shallo Brown	2:06
13. The Scottish Hero	3:53
14. The Returning	3:31
15. Phantom Ships that Pass in the Night	3:10

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Review

Lee Murdock celebrates another landmark with the release of his tenth CD, The Lost Lake Sailors, a collection of songs that speak to the sailing spirit in all of us.

"The Lost Lake Sailors theme encompasses much more than the obvious shipwreck analogy," says Murdock. "There are many ways for a sailor to be lost, not just lost at sea. Yes, people are fascinated by shipwrecks, but these songs also tell of sailors lost from the pages of history, lost in their career, lost in spirit, or maybe just missing from the passenger manifest, as with the black sailors who worked on the Great Lakes ships during the late nineteenth century."

Those familiar with Murdock's work always anticipate the ghost story, and the new CD does not disappoint. SAINT MARTIN ISLAND is a new Murdock original with a haunting melody about a lighthouse keeper on Green Bay, and the CD also premieres a new song by Milwaukee songwriter Larry Penn about a haunted shipwreck in Lake Michigan (WHEN THE WILLIE WENT DOWN).

Sure to be a favorite on this CD is THE MERMAID OF ONTARIO, a humorous rhyming song written by the late Shel Silverstein, another popular songwriter who loved the seas. Silverstein often visited the Ohio island of Put-in-Bay, where he penned a few songs about the Great Lakes.

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