{"product_id":"windjammers-songs-of-the-great-lakes-sailors-great-lakes-books","title":"Windjammers: Songs of the Great Lakes Sailors (Great Lakes Books)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhite-winged schooners once dominated commerce and culture on the Great Lakes  and songs relieved the hours on board  but that way of life and its music ended when steam-driven mechanical boats swept schooners from the inland seas. Recognizing in the late 1930s  almost too late  that this rich oral tradition was going to the grave along with the last generation of schoonermen  Ivan H. Walton undertook a quest to save the songs of the Great Lakes sailors. Racing time and its ravages  he searched out ancient mariners in lakefront hospitals  hangouts  and watering holes. Walton reconstructed songs from one of the most colorful periods in American history  discovering melodies and lyrics to more than a hundred songs. With its stories  lyrics  musical scores by folksinger\/historian Lee Murdock  and accompanying CD  Windjammers ensures that sailing chanteys that have not been heard for over one hundred years can be heard again and again far into the future.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44958018732085,"sku":"ByrdShop_0814329977","price":36.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780814329979.jpg?v=1770360487","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/windjammers-songs-of-the-great-lakes-sailors-great-lakes-books","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}