 Mike came to learn that there were a couple men who came before Phil doing this work. Starting in the 60s, they made recordings of people playing old folk songs across Minnesota. And slowly, Mike started to piece together a picture of an incredibly rich musical tradition across the state. He did this with the help of people like Jim Leary, the folklorist at the University of Wisconsin, who pointed not just to Scandinavian tunes. But places like New Ulm, Sleepy Eye, heavily German.