Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif finds connections and develops themes in various genres. The show is broadcast on CKCU, 93.1 FM, in Ottawa on Tuesdays from 3:30 until 5 pm (Eastern time) and is also available 24/7 for on-demand streaming.
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Theme: Flood Water.
There have always been floods but, with climate change, they’re happening more often and in more places. I began to think about this theme earlier this month as I watched the news coverage about the tragic floods in Texas.
Eric Bibb- Flood Water
Booker’s Guitar (Telarc)
Roomful of Blues- Texas Flood
The First Album (Hyena)
Josh White- Backwater Blues
Empty Bed Blues (Elektra)
Guy Davis- Georgia Flood
You Don’t Know My Mind (Red House)
Big Bill Broonzy- Southern Flood Blues
Big Bill’s Blues (Portrait)
Michael Jerome Browne- Louisiana 1927
That’s Where It’s At! (Borealis)
Joan Baez- Money for Floods
Gone from Danger (Guardian)
The Fairfield Four- Noah
I Couldn’t Hear Nobody Pray (Warner Bros.)
Joel Mabus- The Preacher & the Flood
Retold (Fossil)
Murray McLauchlan- Red River Flood
Songs from the Street: The Best of Murray McLauchlan (True North)
Diana Braithwaite & Chris Whiteley- Manitoba Flood
Scrap Metal Blues (Electro-Fi)
Johnny Cash- Five Feet High and Rising
Change of Address: The Singles As and Bs, 1958-1962 (Jasmine)
Tom Russell & Iris DeMent- Big Water
The Long Way Around (HighTone)
Ramblin' Jack Elliott- Rising High Water Blues
A Stranger Here (Anti-)
Martin Grosswendt- Mississippi Heavy Water Blues
Call and Response (Les Moore Productions)
Bill Staines- Louisiana Storm
The Second Million Miles (Red House)
John McCutcheon- Hell and High Water
Field of Stars (Appalsongs)
Muireann Bradleu- When the Levee Breaks
I Kept These Old Blues (Decca/Verve Forecast)
Happy Traum- Crash on the Levee (Down in the Flood)
Just for the Love of It (Lark’s Nest Music)
Joe Ely- A Flood On Our Hands
Streets of Sin (Rounder)
Michael Jerling- After the Flood
Halfway Home (Fool’s Hill Music)
Tom Rush, Jamie Hartford, Odetta, Emmylou Harris, Carolyn Hester, Nanci Griffith & Frank Christian- Wasn’t That a Mighty Storm
Other Voices, Too (A Trip Back to Bountiful) (Elektra)
Next week: Songs of Steve Gillette and John Stewart.
--Mike Regenstreif