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Father Hennepin (band)

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Genres
  
alternative country

Years active
  
1998 – present

Genre
  
Alternative country

Instruments
  
Vocals, guitar, drums,

Members
  
Starfire Bob Olson

Albums
  
Crooked With Gin

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Origin
  
Duluth, Minnesota, United States (1998)

Record labels
  
Spinout Records, Shaky Ray

Father Hennepin is an American alternative country band from Duluth, Minnesota. Since releasing their debut album "Crooked With Gin"in 1999, the band has been perennial headliners of the Homegrown Music Festival in Duluth.

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Frontman Starfire is the founder of the Homegrown Music Festival, pirate radio station Random Radio, and Perfect Duluth Day. Father Hennepin is best known for their revival of the Moose Wallow Ramblers song written by John Berquist, "I Like It in Duluth".

Lineup

  • Starfire-- guitar, vocals
  • Bob Olson-- guitar
  • "Wolfman" Ted Anderson, guitar, vocals
  • Brad Nelson, drums
  • Susie Ludwig, keyboard/accordion

    • Studio albums

  • Crooked With Gin – (Shaky Ray Records, 1999)

    • Compilations

  • Duluth Does Dylan – (Spinout Records, 2000)
  • Iron Country – (Spinout Records, 2000)
  • Homegrown Rawk and/or Roll: Starfire's Mix – (Homegrown Music Festival, 2008)

    • Songs

    I Like It in DuluthCrooked With Gin · 2001
    Girl From the North Country2000
    wwwjesuscomCrooked With Gin · 2001

    References

    Father Hennepin (band) Wikipedia
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