Jeff Daniels yuks it up with musical Michigan tales, anecdotes for Grand Rapids crowd

The Michigan singer-songwriter and actor regaled a sold-out crowd at St. Cecilia Music Center on Wednesday with laugh-inducing ditties, many of them involving the Mitten State. The review and photos.

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With song titles such as “Jesus Was a Stoner,” “The Dirty Harry Blues” and the Detroit Lions’ anthem, “The Curse of Bobby Layne,” there’s little secret to Jeff Daniels’ successful approach as a tunesmith and performer.

His sold-out, 90-minutes-plus affair Wednesday night at St. Cecilia Music Center in Grand Rapids was full of his clever ditties, down-to-earth humor and hilarious anecdotes — not to mention inducing audience members to join him on stage to blow a train whistle (during “Detroit Train”) and do the Upper Peninsula-inspired “Big Bay Shuffle,” to the delight of attendees…

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