{"id":6546,"date":"2011-04-01T02:30:35","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T06:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=6546"},"modified":"2011-04-01T07:14:26","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T11:14:26","slug":"last-man-standing-river-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standing-river-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Man Standing: River Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Typically, Townspeople suggest one of two types of Last Man Standing<\/em> topics: those that seem like they may be so specific that the topic is exhausted after 4 entries and those that promise to break the magical mark of 200 entries. Today’s Last Man Standing<\/em>, suggested offlist by Townsman andyr’s better half<\/strong>, certainly opens the floodgates to the latter variety: songs about rivers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Now, we can go at least 2 ways with this: songs about specific rivers or all songs about rivers in general. I briefly considered seeing if we could find a song for every river in the rocking, English-speaking world, until I looked it up and found that there are about 250,000 rivers in the United States alone. We’re good, but not that good.<\/p>\n

Since I don’t want to exclude one of the most excruciating title tracks in rock history, Bruce Springsteen<\/strong>‘s nonspecific “The River”<\/strong> (now played and, therefore, off the board), let’s keep this competition open to all<\/strong> (almost, see next exclusion) river-referencing rock songs. The judges will, however, rule harshly against streams, creeks, bays, oceans, lakes, ponds, and any other tributaries that fall outside the category of river<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The only other exclusion, just because I need to be a bit of a dick and encourage a degree of difficulty, will be repeat entries<\/em> of any songs citing the Mississippi River<\/strong>. The first “Mississippi River” entry will be the last one allowed.<\/p>\n

Let it flow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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