Favorite Up North song?

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Permalink Reply by Diane Kolak on September 25, 2008 at 1:25pm

Admittedly not my favorite, but it cannot be ignored:

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Permalink Reply by Kelly on September 26, 2008 at 10:05am

I have very distinct memories of driving around Leelanau County on the pleather seats of my dad's pickup truck (the truck that later caught on fire after a winter Petoskey stone hunt), listening to Gordon Lightfoot. To this day, I can't hear "Sundown" without smelling exhaust and northern air.

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Permalink Reply by Kate on October 8, 2008 at 9:39pm

Oh, easy one. Daisy Mae's "A Letter From Downstream," which she wrote and donated to Save the Wild UP.

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Permalink Reply by Kent on October 11, 2008 at 7:36pm

Diane posted "Second Week of Deer Camp"??????????????
You'd think only a yooper would post that...

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Permalink Reply by Scot on October 12, 2008 at 7:23am

It changes.... Right now, Great Lakes Myth Society's "Across the Bridge"

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Permalink Reply by Diane Kolak on October 24, 2008 at 12:55pm

Oh, good one! Did you know that if you play the song as you start to cross and drive the exact speed limit, it's the perfect length to end at the toll booth? We did it in reverse, coming south, and the song ended somewhere around the southernmost support.

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Permalink Reply by Jeff Smith on October 14, 2008 at 9:57pm

Let's put Greg Brown's Laughing River on the list.

"I'm goin away,
'cause I gotta busted heart.
I'm leavin' today,
if my TravelAll will start.
And I recken where I'm headed,
I might need me different clothes--
way up in Michigan,
where the Laughing River flows. "

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Permalink Reply by Emily Betz Tyra on October 23, 2008 at 3:31pm

Here's mine. It always sends a chill up my northern spine.
"Northern Sky," Nick Drake
I never felt magic crazy as this
I never saw moons, knew the meaning of the sea
I never held emotion in the palm of my hand
Or felt sweet breezes in the top of a tree
But now you're here
Brighten my northern sky.

I've been a long time that I'm waiting
Been a long that I'm blown
I've been a long time that I've wandered
Through the people I have known
Oh, if you would and you could
Straighten my new mind's eye.

Would you love me for my money
Would you love me for my head
Would you love me through the winter
Would you love me 'til I'm dead
Oh, if you would and you could
Come blow your horn on high.

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Permalink Reply by John Muir on December 7, 2008 at 5:05pm

Thanks for that one, I'd never heard it before. Did a search on Itunes and found an instrumental piano version by Christopher O'Riley done on a tribute to Nike Drake album that he did.
John

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Permalink Reply by Troy on October 24, 2008 at 2:01pm

Feist - Mushaboom
Joni Mitchell - River
or pretty much anything from Sufjan Steven's Michigan album!

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Permalink Reply by Kelly on October 24, 2008 at 2:31pm

Oooh, good calls troydesh—Mushaboom especially—it was on constant loop in my car for months. :)

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Permalink Reply by Diane Kolak on October 24, 2008 at 4:38pm

Yeah, Sufjan! (How'd we get this far without mentioning him?)

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