Reviving Songs of the Great Lakes

Ships continue to steam on across the Great Lakes this summer, and that gives Lee Murdock something to sing about. Murdock has made his career singing songs of the Lakes; from 200-year-old sailors’ work songs, to his own compositions based on Great Lakes folklore. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium’s Chris Julin caught up with Murdock at a concert in Duluth, and he filed this report: