Theoretically, we were alternating between songs about relationships gone bad and natural disasters, but it got a little random after a point.
The number of songs just kept rising like the floodwaters many of them mention and we got into some cool little grooves until finally cresting at a double CD, 156 minutes or so…
The mix itself flows like the Mighty Mississip' from country blues to bluegrass to jazz and back ‘round again, with a few unexpected turns along the way. And as these things tend to do, it was wrapped up like a failed marriage with the low moaning of Tom Waits.
Disk 1
1. St. Louis Jimmy – Florida Hurricane
2. T-Bone Walker – It's A Low Down Dirty Deal
3. Albert King with Pops Staples & Steve Cropper – Tupelo (Pt. 1)
4. John Lee Hooker – I Cover The Waterfront
5. Lizzie Miles – I Hate a Man Like You
6. Bob Dylan & The Hawks – Crash On The Levee (Down In The Flood)
7. B.B. King – I Got Some Help I Don't Need
8. Booker T. & the MG's – Melting Pot
9. The Meters – Stay Away
10. Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble – Texas Flood
11. William Eliot Whitmore – The Buzzards Won't Cry
12. Steve Earle – Rivers Of Babylon
13. Johnny Cash – Delia's Gone
14. Woody Guthrie – Los Angeles New Year's Flood
15. Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys – The Coupon Song
16. Flatt & Scruggs – Take Me in a Life Boat
17. Hank Williams, Sr. – Move It On Over
18. The Doug Sahm, Gene Taylor & Amos Garrett Band – Sweet Home Chicago
19. Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble – I’m Leaving
20. Neil Young – Like a Hurricane
21. Bill Withers – Better Off Dead
22. Regina Carter – Higher Ground
Disk 2
1. Albert King – Drownin' on Dry Land
2. Albert Collins – So Tired
3. Big Joe Turner – Lonesome Graveyard
4. Lonnie Johnson – She's Making Whoopee in Hell Tonight
5. Dr. Ralph Stanley & Dr. Bob Dylan – The Lonesome River
6. Webb Pierce – High-Geared Daddy
7. Merle Haggard – Mississippi Delta Blues
8. Q – Some Of These Days
9. Louis Armstrong – Alligator Crawl
10. Green Bailey – The Fate Of Ellen Smith
11. Charley Patton – Revenue Man Blues
12. David Edwards – Build Myself A Cave
13. The Maddox Brothers & Rose – (Pay Me) Alimony
14. Guitar Slim – Quicksand
15. Bob Dylan – High Water (For Charley Patton)
16. Gomez – Me, You And Everybody
17. Uncle Tupelo – New Madrid
18. Mose Allison – Meet Me At No Special Place
19. Tuts Washington – Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?
20. Gene Harris – Everything Happens To Me
21. Mickey Rooney – Why Can't She Lower the Alimony-
22. Tom Waits – Another Man's Vine
