Welcome back to Parsons Playlists! Today’s playlist is curated by Music Library associate Melanie and features some music having to do with rivers.
Take Me To The River
This is a playlist with lots of songs about rivers – both literal and metaphorical – around the world. Enjoy!
Al Green – “Take Me To The River”
Madness – “Night Boat To Cairo”
Creedence Clearwater Revival – “Green River”
Mavis Staples – “In The Mississippi River”
Alison Krauss (from O Brother, Where Art Thou?-2000) – “Down to the River to Pray”
Lefty Frizzell – “James River”
Original Broadway cast of Big River – “River in the Rain”
Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe McCoy – “When the Levee Breaks”
Old Crow Medicine Show – “James River Blues”
Hemant Kumar (from Kabuliwala – 1961) – “Ganga Aaye Kahan Se”
Gerry and the Pacemakers – “Ferry Cross the Mersey”
Billy Joel – “River of Dreams”
Pete Seeger – “Waist Deep in the Big Muddy”
Paul Williams (from Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas – 1977) – “When the River Meets the Sea”
Neil Young – “Down By The River”
The Melodians – “Rivers of Babylon”
Elvis Costello and Allen Toussaint – “The River in Reverse”
Ike and Tina Turner – “Proud Mary”
Jimmy Cliff – “Many Rivers To Cross”
Bruce Springsteen – “The River”
Zitany Neil/Soukous Stars – “Marcory Gasoil”
Talking Heads – “Take Me To The River”
Here is a link to the whole playlist on YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU94rco57ZeyX1sWqgssBjMJjTw11gEgh&si=pluZcqQHX3VZYmVi
And here is a version of it on Spotify:
