William Elliott Whitmore
We’re now in the latter half of April, and the Mississippi is letting us know why so many people have written songs about its tendency to flood. A wet spring has revived the river from a drought-induced coma, rising with an urgency that is quickly taking it beyond nuisance flooding to inducing nervous river folks to think about grabbing some sandbags. This is the perfect time for a flood song from a contemporary musician who grew up near the Mississippi: William Elliott Whitmore. Lee County Flood was released as part of Whitmore’s 2006 CD Song of the Blackbird, a song about high water in the Iowa county where he grew up.
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