Music Playlist

THE RIVER WITCH PLAYLIST

Listen to the playlist on Spotify by clicking the link in the sidebar.

Also in the sidebar:

View a video of the Grits & Soul Band singing Flood Waters – a song that inspired Kimberly as she wrote The River Witch.
The band later wrote and recorded Carry Me Away, inspired by The River Witch.
Listen to a song inspired by and written for The River Witch as part of the Southern Independent Bookseller’s Alliance TRIO exhibit 2017 – Water Damascus – written and performed by singer/songwriter Sarah Aili.
Learn more about TRIO here.

Oh Cumberland Matracea Berg and Emmylou Harris (The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)

Down in the Valley The Head and the Heart

Salty South Indigo Girls (Acoustic Version)

Somewhere to Lay My Head Florida Folk Life Collection

Flood Waters Anna Kline and the Grits and Soul Band

She’s Not Innocent Antigone Rising

All Roads to the River Kathy Mattea

Wayfaring Stranger Emmylou Harris

I Find Jesus The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

Fleet of Hope Indigo Girls (Acoustic Version)

Amazing Grace Florida Alabama Progressive Seven Shape Note Singers

Forever Young Bob Dylan (Biograph version)

I’ll Fly Away Alison Krauss and Gillian Welch

Here I Am Mary Chapin Carpenter

Wellington’s Weel Florida Folk Life Collection

Just Breathe Pearl Jam

Jubilee Mary Chapin Carpenter

Wagon Wheel The Old Crow Medicine Show

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