Random Friday ~ 30 Songs With “River” In The Title, 3 With Mississippi (1 Overlap) & One With My Hometown
The big news around these parts is we will be leaving these parts. For Thanksgiving, The Duchess, Duke Jr. and I are flying back to the Midwest. To stay at my parents house on the Mississippi River.
To get me (and you all) in the mood for my time at the river, here are 30 “river” songs, and 3 “Mississippi” songs (1 overlap) and one named after the woman who is named after my hometown. Some you’ve heard here before, some you haven’t.
Can you guess the order?
32. The Snake The Cross The Crown ~ Behold The River
31. Amos Lee ~ Black River
30. Amy Correia ~ Blind River Boy
29. Jorma Kaukonen ~ By The Rivers of Babylon
28. Olivia Newton-John ~ Cry Me A River
27. Richard Thompson ~ Cry Me A River (live)
26. Indigo Girls ~ Down By The River (live Neil cover)
25. Ray LaMontagne ~ Down To The River
24. corsican paintbrush ~ floating down the mississippi
23. Beck ~ Fourteen Rivers Fourteen Floods
22. Old Crow Medicine Show ~ James River Blues
21. Greg Brown ~ Laughing River (new live version)
20. The Walkmen ~ Many Rivers To Cross
19. Bix Beiderbecke ~ Mississippi Mud (Studio)
18. Jimmie Rodgers ~ Mississippi River Blues
17. Patty Griffin ~ Moon River
16. Petra Haden and Bill Frisell ~ Moon River
15. Okkervil River ~ Okkervil River Song
14. Enya ~ River
13. Joni Mitchell ~ River (her song)
12. Madeleine Peyroux (w/ k.d. lang) ~ River (Joni’s song)
11. The Waifs ~ The River (live)
10. Josh Ritter ~ The River (live Boss cover)
9. Emily White ~ River Of Forgetfulness
8. Entrain ~ River Run (live)
7. Lisa Ekdahl ~ Rivers Of Love
6. Ollabelle ~ Riverside
5. Quantic ~ Trouble from the River
4. Willy Mason ~ When The River Moves On
3. Willie Nelson ~ Whiskey River
2. Levon Helm ~ Wide River To Cross
1. Guillemots ~ Woody Brown River
Bonus: Matthew Sweet ~ Winona
What is your favorite “River” song? Leave a hullabaloo.
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Terrific, thanks!
How 'bout Chris Knight's 'Down the River'? It's a great tune.
Fave River songs? "Moody River" - Pat Boone, "River of Darkness" - Gene Pitney, "Patches" - Dicky Lee.
Dan H.
Joe Cocker's version of "Cry Me A River" is just a little bit money.
What, no "Many Rivers To Cross", Jimmy Cliff? A devastatingly beautiful tune.
The Water is Wide. I assume that the water is a river.
From wiki - "The Water is Wide" has also been recorded countless times, with popular renditions by Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Karla Bonoff, James Taylor, John Gorka, Daniel Rodriguez and Rory Block. ...
Neil Young wrote new, environmentally-themed lyrics to the tune, and recorded it as "Mother Earth (Natural Anthem)" on his 1990 album Ragged Glory.
Richard Thompson sure sounds like a girl.
Water is Wide -- yes. The most moving version I've heard is Steve Goodman's recording on his Artistic Hair album.
Talking Heads's version of "Take Me to the River"
The Beautiful South "The River"
Badly Drawn Boy - River, Sea, Ocean
Peter Gabriel - Across the River
Sea Wolf - Leaves in the River
Delirious? - Grace Like A River
U2 - North and South of the River
"Down to the River to Pray" Alison Krauss from O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Night Like a River by Hem
Travis' cover of River :)
Bobby Darin-- (Up a) Lazy River
The Richard Thompson track (on which he plays guitar) has vocals by the wonderful Judith Owen. It's from one of his 1000 Years of Popular Music releases.
You forgot the best and most obvious one of all...
"The River" by Springsteen
Also, "Caught by the River" by Doves
How about this one?
"River of Stars" by 2002
http://www.2002music.com/2002radio.html
Dan Fogelberg's The River and River of Souls...
Angus Stone's cover of Joni Mitchell's 'River'.
"Down River" by David Ackles - sad but moving.
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