My dreams are sails that I point towards my true North

Songs of lumber camps and log drives.

Cover image is of a log drive in Grand Rapids, Michigan, c. 1890s.

Way Up the Ucletaw- Jon Bartlett & Rika Ruebsaat

The Boys of the Island- Alan Mills

Once More A-Lumbering Go- Dan Berggren

How We Got Up to the Woods Last Year- Muddy York

The Ballad of Blue Mountain Lake- Dave Ruch

A Shanty Man’s Life- Dave van Ronk

The Badger Drive- Stan Rogers

Jam on Gerry’s Rock- Wakami Wailers

The River Driver- Great Big Sea

Jack Haggerty- John Lowell & Ben Winship

The Lumbercamp Song- Wakami Wailers

Little Brown Bulls- Robert Walker

The Pinery Boy- Art Thieme

The Falling of the Pine- The Mallett Brothers Band

Johnny Stiles- Tom Brandon

Les Raftsmen- Tamarack

The Grand Hotel/Buck’s Camp Down At Monroe- Jon Bartlett & Rika Ruebsaat

The Backwoodsman- Wakami Wailers

Peter Amberly- Bill Staines

When the Shanty Boy Comes Down- Jeff Warner

Lost Jimmy Whelan/Julia Delany- Wakami Wailers