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Perhaps Northern Michigan's greatest undiscovered folk player, Victor McManemy has a voice in the same neighborhood as that of Gordon Lightfoot, with songwriting talents to match when he released Land of the Free in 1983. McManemy, a resident of Old Mission Peninsula, also has an attitude firmly on the side of the underdog, writing in the lost tradition of the angry, aggrieved balladeer on behalf of the dispossessed, with the injustice to Native Americans being a reoccurring theme.