What The Lake Remembers - The History of Milwaukee Through Songs

Songs of Place

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What the Lake Remembers is a 12-track musical history of Milwaukee, tracing the city from glacial waters and Indigenous homelands through immigration, industry, labor, Bronzeville, reinvention and today. This Songs of Place edition includes the full album plus an interactive, sourced historical guide.

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    01 - When the Ice Let Go 5:43
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    02 - Before Milwaukee Had a Name 5:08
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    03 - Where Three Rivers Meet 5:26
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    04 - Three Towns, One City 4:22
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    05 - The City Learned German 6:01
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    06 - Church Bells and Factory Whistles 5:42
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    07 - The Machine by the Lake 5:48
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    08 - Sewers, Bread and Ballots 6:08
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    09 - Three Shifts 5:59
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    10. Bronzeville 7:36
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    11. When the Whistles Faded 7:46
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    12. The Lake Remembers 7:10
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  • Neverending - Bob Marquee
  • For All We Have - Lystera
  • Messiah Love - The Freejacks
  • Seventy Six Secrets - Georgia Winfrey
  • The Great Pillar of Salt - Aldergrove
  • Memory Or Not - Claire Redwood
  • Beams of Light - Severant Grey
  • All Soldered - Wellington Free Market
  • Smokestack - Friends of Friends
  • Mixed Emotions - Ahab Fraught
  • Lighthouse - Four Poor Souls 
  • Crux - Mastery
  • Ego - Buried
  • Carnival of Rain - Yellowknife
  • Listless While - Virginia Treadfast
  • Many Other Sorrows - White Hot Heaven
  • Open Mirror - Eleven Lions
  • Stood Up - Whalestone
  • Nevertheless - Colin Brilliard
  • Forty and Some Odd - EGK
  • Sun Drums - Emily Watson
  • Another Fine Morning - Golden Tapes