1 post tagged “pinery boy”

Let me set the stage... The pub at Hyland's Hotel in windblown Ballyvaughan in the West of Ireland. An impromtu trad music session has started. Somebody started singing and others went out to their cars and returned with instruments. I started sketching them and this attracted attention. Once the musicians realized I was American, more specifically a Wisconsinite, they asked if I would treat them to a Wisconsin song. Being my bashful, relatively unmusical self, I refused them but the concept of a Wisconsin song stuck with me. What's a Wisconsin song? Even if I was vocally gifted I wouldn't have known a Wisconsin song. Since then I have determined two songs to be Wisconsin songs. The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald & Pinery Boy. In looking for links I discovered that Nick Cave sang a version. Know of any more?