March 13, 2008

Guitarist researches lost songs of Minnesota's Irish lumberjacks

Tom Crann - Interviewer, Brian Miller - Interviewee, Nathan Gorley - Performer

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MPR’s Tom Crann talks with guitarist Brian Miller, who is reviving some songs that were nearly lost to history. They're the melodies and lyrics of Minnesota's Irish lumberjacks, who logged the boreal forests in the two decades around the turn of the last century.

Miller and fiddler Nathan Gorley perform songs in the studio.

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