High Water Everywhere (Part I) / High Water Everywhere (Part II)

by Charley Patton

High Water Everywhere (Part I) / High Water Everywhere (Part II) cover art
  • Type: Single
  • Released: January 1930
  • Label: Paramount
  • Country: United States
  • Community rating: 3.73/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Serving as a harrowing, first-hand documentary of the catastrophic Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, this raw acoustic blues is delivered with overwhelming, percussive intensity. The historically vital, intensely passionate vocal performance vividly captures the devastation and displacement of the Delta's marginalized communities.

Genres

Descriptors: acoustic, history, lo-fi, repetitive

Tracklist

  1. High Water Everywhere, Part I
  2. High Water Everywhere, Part II

Credits

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