Hooray for Tuesday's MP3: Great Lakes Cover Donovan

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Hooray for Tuesday's MP3: Great Lakes Cover Donovan

Published Tuesday, February 13, 2007 by Jeff | E-mail this post

With sincerest apologies to Ben Crum, who hates his vocals on this track, today's MP3 is the Great Lakes' cover of Donovan's "Teen Angel," as presented on A Gift from a Garden to a Flower: A Tribute to Donovan, a compilation released in 2002. I happen to like this track a lot, but apparently Ben wishes he'd had another go at it. You can judge for yourself.

The compilation is still in print (yes, I broke my rule), and you can get it at Darla Records' website. It features My Morning Jacket, Ashley Park, Screen Prints, and numerous others, and is, I think, a notch or two above most tribute albums.

Great Lakes are hard at work on their latest album, hoping to put it out as a quick follow-up to last year's excellent Diamond Times, which earned a mention in the Onion AV Club's top albums for 2006. It's out on Empyrean Records.

Great Lakes - Teen Angel

P.S. You can read a review of their recent London show at Water Rats here.