Great Lake Swimmers is a Canadian band built around the melodic folk rock songs of singer-songwriter Tony Dekker, from Wainfleet, Ontario. The band also includes, Erik Arneson on banjo, and Colin Huebert on drums.
The band's style has been compared to Red House Painters, Nick Drake, Iron & Wine and Neil Young, as well as Will Oldham and Sufjan Stevens.Dekker has said his influences include Gram Parsons and Hank Williams. Listening to Great Lake Swimmers will make you want to go skinny-dipping in a cold body of water (as the band name may or may not suggest).
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