Great Lake Swimmers

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Great Lake Swimmers are a Canadian indie rock band. Built around the melodic folk rock songs of singer-songwriter Tony Dekker, the band also includes, Erik Arneson on banjo, and Colin Huebert on drums.

The band’s style has been compared to Red House Painters, Nick Drake, Gram Parsons and Neil Young.

For lots more info please visit www.greatlakeswimmers.com or www.weewerk.com

· Great Lake Swimmers are offering up a free 5-song live EP from their sold-out show at Toronto’s Church of the Redeemer. Please visit http://tinyurl.com/2hx93v to download.

1	Your Rocky Spine	1,068
2	Bodies and Minds full track	456
3	Backstage with the Modern Dancers	439
3	Changing Colours	439
5	Various Stages full track	414
6	Song for the Angels full track	406
7	I am part of a Large Family	405
8	where in the world are you	397
9	There Is A Light	382
10	Put there by the land	372
11	Moving pictures silent films full track	370
12	I Will Never See the Sun full track	351
13	When It Flows full track	343
14	I Could Be Nothing full track	336
15	I Became Awake	327

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Indyalanjones1 wrote:
Wednesday morning

'Where in the World are you Now' man...When ever i hear that i think of my ex.

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Raisin-Girl wrote:
Monday morning

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courtgolightly wrote:
Sunday afternoon

oh wow

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drakeno wrote:
8 days ago

Beautiful music...

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mikey_lol wrote:
13 days ago

awesome band, i absolutely love Passenger Song off the new album :)

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JoleneSummer wrote:
20 days ago

I adore.

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Emusrcool wrote:
21 days ago

Saw them open up for Robert Plant/Alison Krauss in Toronto...Great band.

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infant-tango wrote:
22 days ago

first i didn't really dig it, but now i really love it

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Freakyness wrote:
last month

: ) THANK YOU LAST.FM!

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TheRealEvilOne wrote:
last month

What a great band! Ongiara has really beautiful songs. I discover some wonders on Last.fm... :D

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Loose_Screw wrote:
last month

discovered them on the latest Weeds compilation. Since then I've added all of their albums to my iTunes library. I love the singer's voice :) and of course the great tunes he writes

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aliwhitton wrote:
last month

hey there, I wondered if you might like my songs... you can hear them at: http://www.aliwhitton.co.uk on the music page... hope you like them - they're kinda alt-country'esque... :-) ali x

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megcab wrote:
last month

nice music to listen to ;-)

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cassisaari wrote:
last month

Great Lake Swimmers on my new mix tape. :D http://tangledcord.blogspot.com/2008/07/highlit-mix-tape.html

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Commonground08 wrote:
last month

Great Lake Swimmers are coming to Common Ground Coffeehouse in Hastings-on-Hudson NY on 9/27/08. Info at http://commongroundfusw.com

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Disco42 wrote:
June 2008

"Changing Colours" is such a beautiful song.

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kazey wrote:
June 2008

Heres a review of their NXNE show: http://www.panicmanual.com/2008/06/16/nxne-great-lake-swimmers-reverb-june-13/

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emergingsynergy wrote:
June 2008

Here is a link to a really fine recording, live. Go for the "zip" file. :)

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kuduaty wrote:
June 2008

Dudes listen too much Simon & Garfunkel ;X

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AmandaBaylie wrote:
May 2008

hi

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