Wisconsin folksinger/songwriter David HB Drake offers an insight that few deepwater salt sailors understand, and the music in this album reflects this. The Great Lakes were often known to ocean sailors as the Lakes of Amerikey, and they frequently looked down on Great Lakes sailors as farm boys or country bumpkins who sailed around in ponds and puddles. That's what they thought until they tried sailing the Lakes themselves. 
 
This album has some wonderful songs, but David Drake's message is best illustrated with his own original work the Lakes of A-mer-i-key, a composition (and performance) which alone is worth the price of this album. This reviewer agrees with Ms. Satter that this is indeed a 5-star offering.
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This CD is a great combination of solo and group voices singing of the seas.  If you would rather be spending your time of the water, this is a great addition to your library.  If you don't know the songs already, you'll quickly be singing along.  If you are a sailor "from afar", you quickly become attached to the songs.
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