Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Self Help Radio 111020: Floods

(Who says it doesn't flood in Portland?  Original image here.)

As someone who's still pretty anxious about the state of my country at the moment, I do want to acknowledge that it doesn't feel currently as much like a natural disaster as it could have been.  Recently I spoke with someone who talked a great deal about magic & rituals & perhaps she would consider this show as a kind of ward I constructed to stave off such an eventuality.  Nonetheless, playing on the radio for three hours, even with some harrowing stories about floods in history & songs about those floods, it kept me from being as fretful as I've been & for that I am grateful.

Three hours of radio still feels like a bit too long, but hopefully the show is fitting well into its new time slot.  There certainly were a lot of songs about floods to sort through!

You can listen to the show now & anytime at the Self Help Radio website.  You'll need a username - which is SHR - & a password - which is selfhelp - to listen.  (If you'd prefer to hear the real-time recording of the show - I edited this stuff out - you can listen to it on the KBOO website - it includes material from the previous show & also some station spots.)  The show is three long hours long long.  What happens on the show is below.

Stay dry!

Self Help Radio Floods Show
"The Flood Blues" Sippie Wallace _Louis Armstrong & The Blues Singers_
"Alabama Flood" Andrew Jenkins _People Take Warning! (Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs, 1913-1938)_
"Noah & The Flood" Norman Haskins _Virginia & The Piedmont (Minstrelsy, Work Songs, & Blues)_

introduction & definitions

"Flood Water Blues No. 2 (Take 1)" Casey Bill Weldon _Complete Recorded Works 1935-1938 In Chronological Order: Volume 1_
"The 1936 Floods" Red Foley _Old Shep (The Red Foley Recordings 1933-1950)_
"Flood Water Blues" Lonnie Johnson _Complete 1937 To June 1947 Recordings In Chronological Order, Volume 1_
"Flood" Muddy Waters _Muddy Waters (The Chess Box)_
"Texas Flood" Larry Davis _I Pity The Fool (The Duke Records Story)_

interview with News 44 meteorologist Angela Sinclair

"Flood Of Love" Roy Hall _Roy Rocks_
"Galveston Flood" Tom Rush _Take A Little Walk With Me_
"Crash On The Levee (Down In The Flood)" Bob Dylan & The Band _The Basement Tapes_
"Floods Of Florence" Phil Ochs _Tape From California_
"The Flood" Ginger Ale _The Story Of The Sixties_

Ned Dry interrupts!

"Lost In The Flood" Bruce Springsteen _Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J._
"Flashflood" Romeo Void _Benefactor_
"Genesis 6" Christopher Glyn _The Historical Books Of The Bible: Genesis_
"Flood Victim" Jah Lloyd _Reggae Stick_
"The Flood" Blue Orchids _A Darker Bloom: The Blue Orchids Collection_

interview with flood insurance salesperson Doug Jones

"After The Flood" Lone Justice _Lone Justice_
"Flood" Throwing Muses _University_
"Mr Flood's Party" Paul Taver _Poetry Reading_
"Waiting For The Flood" Love & Rockets _Earth Sun Moon_
"Here Comes The Flood" The Divine Comedy _Fin De Siècle_

Marge Most reports

"Living In The Flood" Horace Andy _Living In The Flood_
"The Flood" The Mekons _Journey To The End Of The Night_
"Flood" The Gentle Waves _Swansong For You_
"In A Flood" John Cale _Black Acetate_
"A Flood" Fanfarlo _Rooms Filled With Light_

a Self Help Radio list: the five worst floods in the US

"Flooded" Von Südenfed _Tromatic Reflexxions_
"The Great Boston Molasses Flood" The Dead Milkmen _Pretty Music For Pretty People_
"The Flood" Pinto _Hook Me Up_
"King Tide & The Sunny Day Flood" Billy Bragg _Bridges Not Walls_
"Fox Confessor Brings The Flood" Neko Case _Fox Confessor Brings The Flood_

conclusion & goodbye

"Flood I" The Sisters Of Mercy _Floodland_
"The Flood" Facts On File _Bring It Back_
"After The Flood" Woolen Men _Temporary Monument_
"Flood Of Light" Modern English _Take Me To The Trees_

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