The theme this week on Stranger Songs is 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.
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| fragment of The Stranger Song Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy 
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| Flood Water Eric Bibb - Booker’s Guitar - Telarc |
| Texas Flood Roomful of Blues - The First Album - Hyena |
| Backwater Blues Josh White - Empty Bed Blues - Elektra |
| Georgia Flood Guy Davis - You Don’t Know My Mind - Red House |
| Southern Flood Blues Big Bill Broonzy - Big Bill’s Blues - Portrait |
| Louisiana 1927 Michael Jerome Browne - That’s Where It’s At! - Borealis
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| Money for Floods Joan Baez - Gone from Danger - Guardian |
| fragment of The Stranger Song Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy
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| Noah The Fairfield Four - I Couldn’t Hear Nobody Pray - Warner Bros. |
| The Preacher & the Flood Joel Mabus - Retold - Fossil |
| Red River Flood Murray McLauchlan - Songs from the Street: The Best of Murray McLauchlan - True North
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| Manitoba Flood Diana Braithwaite & Chris Whiteley - Scrap Metal Blues - Electro-Fi
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| Five Feet High and Rising Johnny Cash - Change of Address: The Singles As and Bs, 1958-1962 - Jasmine |
| Big Water Tom Russell & Iris DeMent - The Long Way Around - HighTone |
| Rising High Water Blues Ramblin' Jack Elliott - A Stranger Here - Anti- |
| Mississippi Heavy Water Blues Martin Grosswendt - Call and Response - Les Moore Productions |
| Louisiana Storm Bill Staines - The Second Million Miles - Red House |
| Hell and High Water John McCutcheon - Field of Stars - Appalsongs |
| When the Levee Breaks Muireann Bradley - I Kept These Old Blues - Decca/Verve Forecast 
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| Crash on the Levee (Down in the Flood) Happy Traum - Just for the Love of It - Lark's Nest Music |
| A Flood On Our Hands Joe Ely - Streets of Sin - Rounder |
| After the Flood Michael Jerling - Halfway Home - Fool’s Hill Music |
| Wasn't That a Mighty Storm Tom Rush, Jamie Hartford, Odetta, Emmylou Harris, Carolyn Hester, Nanci Griffith & Frank Christian - Other Voices, Too (A Trip Back to Bountiful) - Elektra |
| fragment of The Stranger Song Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy
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I mention at the end of this show that next week's theme will be Songs of Steve Gillette and John Stewart. That theme will now be heard on August 5. Next week's program will be dedicated to remembering Robert Resnik.
2:43 PM, July 21st, 2025