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Take Me To The River

Guy Garvey picks some of his favourite songs about rivers, featuring tracks by Groove Armada, Nick Drake and R.E.M.

Guy Garvey picks some of his favourite songs about rivers, featuring tracks by Groove Armada, Nick Drake and R.E.M.

Plus, birthday tributes to Chrissie Hynde and Peter Sellers, and a classic Beckapedia celebrating Terry 'Superlungs' Reid.

Poet Laureate Simon Armitage stops by, along with BBC Radio Scotland's Roddy Hart, and there's some of your superb 'Songs For Guy' recommendations.

Produced by BBC Audio for BBC Radio 6 Music.

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Mon 14 Sep 202600:00
BBC Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • Nick Drake

    River Man

  • Groove Armada

    At The River

  • Brasstronaut

    Bounce

  • Neil Diamond

    Glory Road

  • R.E.M.

    You Are The Everything

  • Biita Houdei

    Night Fright

  • Patsy Cline

    Walkin' After Midnight

  • The Human League

    (Keep Feeling) Fascination

  • Django Django & Max Pope

    Feel Alright

  • Scritti Politti

    Oh Patti (Don't Feel Sorry for Loverboy)

  • Toumani Diabaté & Sidiki Diabaté

    Rachid Ouiguini

  • Randy Newman

    When She Loved Me

  • Devendra Barnhart

    Sawkill River

  • Ella Fitzgerald

    Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall

  • Neko Case

    Deep Red Bells

  • Terry Reid

    River

  • Sam Burton

    I'm A Stranger

  • Eddi Reader

    Wild Mountainside

  • R.E.M.

    Try Not To Breathe

  • Otis Redding

    (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay

  • Pretenders

    Kid

  • Harry Connick, Jr.

    It Had To Be You

  • The Dø

    Slippery Slope

  • Juni Habel

    I'd Like To See It

  • Connan Mockasin

    Faking Jazz Together

  • Baaba Maal & Mansour Seck

    Muudo Hormo

  • R.E.M.

    Perfect Circle

  • Melody’s Echo Chamber

    You Won't Be Missing That Part Of Me

  • Peter Sellers

    All The Things You Are

  • The Verve

    So It Goes

  • John Martyn

    Back Down The River

  • Pretenders

    Brass In Pocket

  • Laura Marling

    Patterns

  • Kate Stables

    He Waits, By The Riverside

  • Josh Bray

    The River Song

  • Patsy Cline

    Crazy

  • Kevin Morby

    Natural Disaster

  • Audrey Hepburn

    Moon River

  • Kings of Convenience

    Riot On An Empty Street

  • Liz Fraser & Jeff Buckley

    All Flowers In Time

  • R.E.M.

    Find The River

Broadcasts

  • Sun 13 Sep 202613:00
    BBC Radio 6 Music
  • Mon 14 Sep 202600:00
    BBC Radio 6 Music