I visited the folks last week and it just hit me like I bolt of lightening that I did not get a chance to go for a walk beside the beautiful Ottawa River…drat!!

So to ease my pain over that lost opportunity, here’s my “River” playlist within my iTunes (in no particular order):

• Wide River to Cross – Levon Helm

• Where the River Goes – Stone Temple Pilots

• When Rivers Rise – Spirit of the West

• To The Workers Of The Rock River Valley Region, I Have An Idea Concerning Your Predicament – Sufjan Stevens

• Take Me To The River – The Commitments

• Ann Southam’s Fast River #6 – Christina Petrowska Quilico

• Riverboat Shuffle – Frankie Trumbauer and his Orchestra

• Riverboat Fantasy – David Wilcox

• The River Of Dreams – Billy Joel

• River Of Deceit – Mad Season

• The River Is Wide – Kathleen Gorman

• River Deep, Mountain High – Ike & Tina Turner

• River – Joni Mitchell

• The River – Brian Eno & David Byrne

• Ride Across the River – Dire Straits

• Plague and the Moonflower – 3. River Stories – Richard Harvey

• Music for Heaven and Earth – 5. River of Stars – Alexina Louie

• Mango Pickle Down River – M.I.A.

• Lost River Blues I & II – Esmerine

• Lazy River – Louis Armstrong

• Fall In A River – Badly Drawn Boy

• Dreamstate River – Ron Korb

• Down To The River To Pray – Alison Krauss

• By The Rivers Dark – Leonard Cohen

Which of these do you like? Not like? Do you have any “River” songs in your playlist that I missed?