Great Lake Swimmers are a Canadian indie rock band. Built around the melodic folk rock songs of singer-songwriter Tony Dekker, the band also includes Sandro Perri (aka Polmo Polpo) on lap steel, Erik Arneson on banjo, Almog Ben-David on piano and Colin Huebert on drums. Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music often used to refer to bands that are on small independent record labels or that arent on labels at all. ... Bob Dylans folk-rock album, Blonde on Blonde Folk-rock is a musical genre, combining elements of folk music and rock music. ... The term singer-songwriter refers to performers who both write and sing their own material. ... Polmo Polpo is a solo project by musician Sandro Perri. ... Lap Steel Guitar (also called Hawaiian Guitar or simply lap steel or steel guitar) is a type of guitar, and a method of playing the instrument. ... Old 6-string zither banjo For other uses, see Banjo (disambiguation) The banjo is a stringed instrument of African American origin, early or original examples sometimes being called the gourd banjo. Its name is commonly thought to be derived from the Kimbundu term mbanza. ... A baby grand piano, with the lid up. ... Drum carried by John Unger, Company B, 40th Regiment New York Veteran Volunteer Infantry Mozart Regiment, December 20, 1863 Several American Indian-style drums for sale at the National Museum of the American Indian. ...

The band's style has been compared to Red House Painters, Nick Drake, Gram Parsons and Neil Young. Red House Painters is an indie rock group formed in 1989 in San Francisco by singer/songwriter Mark Kozelek. ... Nick Drake Nicholas Rodney Drake (June 19, 1948 – November 25, 1974) was a British singer/songwriter. ... Gram Parsons (November 5, 1946 – September 19, 1973) was an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and pianist born Ingram Cecil Connor, III. A solo artist as well as a member of both The Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers, he is best known for a series of recordings which anticipate the... Neil Percival Kenneth Robert Ragland Young (born November 12, 1945) is a singer/songwriter who grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba. ...

Discography

• Great Lake Swimmers (2003)
• Bodies and Minds (2005)

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External links

• Great Lake Swimmers
• weewerk (Great Lake Swimmers' Canadian record label)