Rivers-N-Music
We are working on a project called "Iowa, The Rivers of Her Valleys 4.0" , I thought it would be cool to have a soundtrack to go along with this effort, so I started looking through my collection and this is what I have found:-) Let me know what I should add to this musical journey down the rivers of our lives :-)
Songs about, named or related to our Rivers/ Songs that remind me of being on the River :-) - Nirvana: All Apologies
Woody Guthrie: Grand Coulee Dam, Red River Valley
Marty Robbins: Cool Water, In the Valley, The Little Green Valley
John Hartford: Where the Old Red River Flows
Stanley Brothers: The Lonesome River
Alison Krauss: Down by the River to Pray
Greg Brown: Laughing River
Robert Johnson: Traveling River Side Blues
Son Little: The River
Bob Dylan: Watching the River Flow, A Hard Rain is Gonna Fall, Down in the Flood, Rainy Day Woman, It’s a Hard Rain
John Prine: Fish and Whistle, Paradise, Illegal Smile
John Hiatt: Buffalo River Home
Leo Kottke: Crow River Waltz
Fleet Foxes: Drops in the River
Combustible Edison, Cry Me a River
Leon Bridges: River
Edward Sharpe: Black Water
Creedence Clear Water Revival: Proud Mary, Green River
The Band: Up on Cripple Creek, Across the Great Divide
Grateful Dead: Ripple, Big River, Fire on the Mountain
Phish: Water in the Sky, Free, Drowned, Prince Caspian, Ride Captain Ride, Sea and Sand, Esther
Marshall Tucker Band: Take the Highway
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: Fishing in the Dark
Alan Jackson: Chattahoochee
Dobbie Brothers: Black Water
Lynard Skynard: Swamp Music
Canned Heat: Goin’ Up the Country, Bullfrog Blues
Allman Brothers: Little Martha
Led Zeppelin: When the Levee Breaks, In the light, The Rain Song, The Ocean, Fool in the Rain
Neil Young: Down by the River
Bruce Springsteen: The River
Talking Heads: Take me to the River, Once in a Lifetime
Commitments: Take me to the River, Destination Anywhere, I Can’t stand the Rain, Slip Away
Banana Slug String Band: River Song
United Tribes 2019: Battle River
Gary Clark Jr.: Catfish Blues
Lissie: Old Mississippi
Modest Mouse: Float On, Gravity Rides Everything
R.E.M.: Night Swimming, Find the River
Live: Run to the Water, Pain Lies on the Riverside, Down at Otter Creek
Connor Oberst: Hundred Ways
Susto: Waves, Black River, Diamonds Icaro
Wildlife: Stand by the Water
The Lone Bellow: To the Woods, Deeper in the Water
Blues Traveler: 100 years
Green River Ordinance: Inward Tide
Lumineers: Slow it Down
Pixies: River Euphrates
The White Buffalo: Devil is a Woman (the River)
Bishop Briggs: River
Tallest Man On Earth: Little River
Enya: River, Orinoco Flow
Groove Armada: At the River
Mogli: Waterfall
Polly Jean Harvey: Down by the Water
Alice in Chains: Dam the River
Stone Temple Pilots: Where the River Goes
Blind Melon: Change, No Rain
Thomas Jack: Rivers
Eminem W/Ed Shereen: River* , explicit content
The Head and the Heart: Rivers and Roads
Way Down Upon the Swanee River, Stephen Collins, 1851
New World Symphony, Antonín Dvořák, 1893
On the Banks of the Wabash Far Away, 1897
My Castle on the River Nile, 1901
Where the Silvery Colorado Winds its Way, 1901
Congo Love Song, 1903
Down where the silvery Mohawk Flows, 1904
On the Mississippi, 1912
Missouri Waltz, 1914
Beautiful Ohio, 1918
Old Man River, Jermoe Kern, 1927
River Runs Through It Soundtrack: Shooting the Shoots, Haunted by Waters
Wildlife at Codfish Hallow