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Great Lake Swimmers - Your Rocky Spine Play Video

Great Lake Swimmers - Your Rocky Spine

Enjoy the Scott Cudmore video for Great Lake Swimmers' song 'Your Rocky Spine' from their 2007 record ONGIARA. Their new record, LOST CHANNELS, will be available on CD/LP & digitially thru Nettwerk on March 31st 2009....

Great Lake Swimmers - Pulling On A Line [Official Music Video] Play Video

Great Lake Swimmers - Pulling On A Line [Official Music Video]

"Pulling On A Line" by Great Lake Swimmers from Lost Channels, available now. Download on iTunes: bit.ly Links: twitter.com/greatlakeswim www.facebook.com/greatlakeswimmers "Pulling On A Line" Lyrics: The line runs...

Great Lake Swimmers - Your Rocky Spine Play Video

Great Lake Swimmers - Your Rocky Spine

Music video for 'Your Rocky Spine', from Great Lake Swimmers album Ongiara. directed by Scott Cudmore. 2007.

Great Lake Swimmers - Palmistry [Official Music Video] Play Video

Great Lake Swimmers - Palmistry [Official Music Video]

Distributed in the US by WMG. "Palmistry" by Great Lake Swimmers from Lost Channels, available now. Download on iTunes: bit.ly Links: twitter.com/greatlakeswim www.facebook.com/greatlakeswimmers "Palmistry" Lyrics:...

Great Lake Swimmers - Still [Official Music Video] Play Video

Great Lake Swimmers - Still [Official Music Video]

Distributed in the US by WMG. "Still" by Great Lake Swimmers from Lost Channels, available now. Download on iTunes:bit.ly Links: www.facebook.com/greatlakeswimmers twitter.com/greatlakeswim "Still" Lyrics: I'm still...

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Great Lake Swimmers Biography

Great Lake Swimmers is a Canadian band built around the melodic folk rock songs of singer-songwriter Tony Dekker. Originally from Wainfleet, Ontario, the band is currently based in Toronto.

The current touring line-up includes Tony Dekker on lead vocals, acoustic guitar and harmonica, Erik Arneson on banjo, electric guitar and harmonium, Greg Millson on drums, Bret Higgins on upright bass and Julie Fader on keyboards and vocals.

The band's style has been compared to Red House Painters, Nick Drake, Iron & Wine and Neil Young, as well as Will Oldham (Bonnie "Prince" Billy) and Sufjan Stevens. Dekker has said his influences include Gram Parsons and Hank Williams.

The band released its third full-length album, Ongiara, on March 27, 2007 in Canada and in May for the rest of the world. Although signing to Nettwerk early in 2007, Great Lake Swimmers continue to be managed by (weewerk). In September 2007, (weewerk) released a limited edition vinyl version of Ongiara. It was available in Australia through native indie label Speak N Spell.

Their fourth album, Lost Channels, was released on March 31, 2009. It was shortlisted for the 2009 Polaris Music Prize.

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Great Lake Swimmers Lyrics

Great Lake Swimmers - Your Rocky Spine Lyrics

I was lost in the lakes
And the shapes that your body makes
That your body makes
That your body makes, that your body makes

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Great Lake Swimmers - Changing Colours Lyrics

You look at me with uncertainty
You look at me with urgency
You look at me with fear in your eyes
Like you're about to follow any

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Great Lake Swimmers - Catcher Song Lyrics

Well the ropes are taut
And the stories have all been caught
There's a frost-cover drawn on the shore
And the catcher still seems to want more

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Great Lake Swimmers - Where in the World Are You Lyrics

I've been looking in churches and looking in bars
Thought that I saw you in the oncoming cars
It was your reflection cast off by the light
And into the sky of this dark city night

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Great Lake Swimmers - I Am Part of a Large Family Lyrics

I am fighting and I am fighting
Kicking and screaming and scratching and budding
Keep it going whenever we're going
Generations generating

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Great Lake Swimmers - Backstage with the Modern Dancers Lyrics

Backstage with the modern dancers
She was stretching her arm, figuring the body
When they were breathing they were shouting
She was concentrating on her breathing

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Great Lake Swimmers - There Is a Light Lyrics

There is a light in you, I have fallen into
There is a light in you, I've fallen into, fallen into

Put all your repents away, I won't fine you just to spine you

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Great Lake Swimmers - Put There by the Land Lyrics

There's a mark on my hand put there by the land
There's a mark on my hand put there by the land
There's a mark on my hand put there by the land
There's a mark on my hand put there by the land

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Great Lake Swimmers Discography

Great Lake Swimmers albums.

  • Lost Channels - 31/03/2009 (Nettwerk/CA)
  • Ongiara - 08/05/2007 (Nettwerk/US)
  • Bodies and Minds - 11/10/2005 (Misra/US)

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