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Kitchen Table Kibitzing 7/16/2023: High Water [1]
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Date: 2023-07-16
Gustav Klimt: Flower Garden (1906)
Good evening, Kibitzers!
Today I am here for side pocket, who has a concert to attend, and tomorrow I am here for Zen Trainer, who has a medical thing to take care of. Zen Trainer will be here on Tuesday, while side pocket takes a well-deserved week off.
Well, today we had the torrential rain that was threatened since Friday. I see that people were killed by flash floods in the Philadelphia area, and there were tornado watches (and some warnings) as well as flash-flood warnings in New England from Connecticut all the way into Maine.
Meanwhile, nomandates reports that Houston is in triple digits all week, never dips below 80 overnight, and has no prospect of rain. I don’t even know how big an area is like that, but I’m guessing “very very big”.
This is intended to not be a space for bad news, so I make these observations merely to impress upon you all how very much I would like to hear that each of you is okay so far.
I guess if I were serious about no bad news, I wouldn’t be doing a diary of songs about floods (literally or metaphorically), but I am not serious about anything, so here we are. If you have more, or favorite versions of these, we’d love to hear them, because music always helps.
Stevie Ray Vaughan and BB King get it exactly backwards (for now!), playing Texas Flood at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in 1990. [5:17]
Randy Newman appears at Jazzopen Stuttgart in 2006, playing Louisiana 1927 in recognition of his mother’s New Orleans heritage. [3:18]
It was VERY hard to pick only one version of When the Levee Breaks. I’m just going to link to Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy’s 1929 recording, since they wrote the song, about the same flood Randy Newman was just singing about.
This, however, is Justin Johnson doing what he does best. [5:30]
Playing for Change covered Stevie Wonder’s Higher Ground in 2020 with, as usual, a remarkable lineup of musicians, including Rhiannon Giddens and Bela Fleck. At least 200% more banjo than the original, and all the better for it! [5:02]
Peter Gabriel performs Here Comes the Flood live on German TV show Rockpalast in 1978. [3:56]
The official video for Jonny Lang’s 1998 Still Rainin’. [4:05]
Tom Rush tells about and performs Wasn't That a Mighty Storm, at the Circle of Friends Coffeehouse in Franklin, MA, in 2012. He tells us, but I will repeat anyway because I want to type it, that this song about the Galveston hurricane of 1900 was apparently written by Rev. “Sin-Killer” Griffin, and collected by John Lomax for the Library of Congress in 1934. [7:43]
Alan Parsons, and his current “Alan Parsons Live Project”, perform Standing on Higher Ground live in Tel Aviv with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, recorded in june 2019. [4:57]
Billy Joel performs Summer, Highland Falls live at Farm Aid in 1985. Summer, Highland Falls is in no way about a flood, and neither was the eponymous town of Highland Falls, New York until a week ago, when they got clobbered along with many other sites in the Hudson Valley. [3:30]
I wanted something a little upbeat to close with. So, here is 14-year-old Ukrainian-born violinist Karolina Protsenko, playing and dancing CCR’s Have You Ever Seen the Rain at her favorite performance location, Santa Monica’s 3rd Street Promenade. (Best use of karaoke tracks ever!) [2:36]
Don’t forget to let us know that you’re okay!
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