Original air date May 14, 2016 | Time 59:00


Richie Havens Jimi Hendrix

Poetry and Music to explore Water. Traffic "Hidden Treasure" and "Rainmaker" from 1971's Low Spark of high Heel Boys; Yusuf's 2008 Roadsinger "The Rain"; Beatles 1966 "Rain"; our own Richie Havens from 2008 Nobody Left to Crown "Hurricane Waters"; Adele's most recent album 25 "Water Under the Bridge"; from 2013 Eric Burdon released Till Your River Runs Dry "River is Rising"; Coldplay Ghost Stories "Oceans"; and finally wherever he is now, Jimi Hendrix is "Still Raining, Still Dreaming".


“Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?" That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future.” ― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.” ― Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories