Take Me to the River
~ Song
Relationships
| writer: | Al Green (US soul singer, songwriter, pastor and record producer) Mabon Hodges (“Teenie”, soul guitarist) |
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| publisher: | Al Green Music Inc. (BMI-affiliated) Burlington Music Irving Music, Inc. JEC Publishing |
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| lyrics page: | https://genius.com/Al-green-take-me-to-the-river-lyrics [info] |
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| SecondHandSongs: | https://secondhandsongs.com/work/2116 [info] |
| Allmusic: | https://www.allmusic.com/song/mt0002707526 [info] |
| Songfacts: | https://www.songfacts.com/facts/al-green/take-me-to-the-river [info] |
| Wikidata: | Q10377910 [info] |
| later parody versions: | Take Me to the Liver |
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Recordings
| Date | Title | Attributes | Artist | Length |
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| recordings | ||||
| 1977-10-10 | Take Me to the River (live, 1977‐10‐10: CBGB, New York, NY) | cover and live | Talking Heads | 5:19 |
| 1977-11-17 | Take Me to the River (live, 1977‐11‐17: Northern Studio, Maynard, MA, USA) | cover and live | Talking Heads | 4:57 |
| 1978-03 – 1978-04 | Take Me to the River | cover | Talking Heads | 5:03 |
| 1978-08-10 | Take Me to the River (live at Entermedia Theatre, New York, NY, 8/10/1978) | cover and live | Talking Heads | 5:56 |
| 1978-08-28 | Take Me to the River (live, 1978-08-28: Park West, Chicago, IL, USA) | cover and live | Talking Heads | 5:29 |
| 1978-09-08 | Take Me to the River (live, 1978‐09‐08: Paramount Theatre, Seattle, WA, USA) | live | Talking Heads | ?:?? |
| 1978-09-13 | Take Me to the River (live, 1978-09-13: Park West, Chicago, IL, USA) | live | Talking Heads | 5:33 |
| 1978-12-18 | Take Me to the River (live, 1978‐12‐18: Agora Ballroom, Cleveland, OH, USA) | cover and live | Talking Heads | 6:27 |
| 1978 | Take Me to the River | cover | Levon Helm | 4:00 |
| 1979-02-10 | Take Me to the River (live, 1979‐02‐10: Saturday Night Live) | cover and live | Talking Heads | 3:57 |
| 1979-08-24 | Take Me to the River (live, 1979‐08‐24: The Berklee Performance Arts Centre, Boston, MA, USA) | cover and live | Talking Heads | 5:37 |
| 1979-08-24 | Take Me to the River (live, 1979-08-24: Berklee Performance Center, Boston, MA, USA) | cover and live | Talking Heads | 5:30 |
| 1979-08-24 | Take Me to the River (live, 1979-08-24: Berklee Performance Center, Boston, MA, USA) | cover and live | Talking Heads | 5:37 |
| 1979 | Take Me to the River (live 1979) | cover and live | Talking Heads | 6:23 |
| 1980-08-23 | Take Me to the River (live, 1980‐08‐23: Heatwave Festival, Mosport Park, Bowmanville, ON, Canada) | cover and live | Talking Heads | ?:?? |
| 1980-08-23 | Take Me To The River (live, 1980‐08‐23: Heatwave Festival, Mosport Park, Bowmanville, ON, Canada) | cover and live | Talking Heads | 5:24 |
| 1980-08-27 | Take Me to the River (live, 1980‐08‐27: Central Park, New York City, NY, USA) | cover and live | Talking Heads | 6:35 |
| 1981 | Take Me to the River (live, 1981: The Tom Jones Show, Vancouver, Canada) | cover and live | Tom Jones | ?:?? |
| 1983-08-03 | Take Me to the River (live, 1983‐08‐03: Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA) | live | Talking Heads | 8:16 |
| 1983-08-05 | Take Me to the River (live, 1983‐08‐05: Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA) | live | Talking Heads | 8:24 |
| 1983-08-05 | Take Me to the River | cover and live | Talking Heads | 8:16 |
| 1983-08-20 | Take Me to the River (live, 1983‐08‐20: Cape Cod Coliseum, South Yarmouth, MA, USA) | live | Talking Heads | 7:53 |
| 1983-12 | Take Me to the River (live, 1983-12: Pantages Theater, Hollywood, CA, USA) | cover and live | Talking Heads | 6:00 |
| 1984-02-28 | New Gold Dream (81, 82, 83, 84) / Take Me to the River / Light My Fire (live, 1984‐02‐28: Barrowland, Glasgow, UK) | cover, live and medley | Simple Minds | 12:42 |
| 1985-01-05 | New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) / Take Me to the River / Light My Fire (live, 1985-01-05: Barrowlands, Glasgow, UK) | cover and live | Simple Minds | 12:33 |
| 1986-01 | Take Me to the River | cover | Element of Crime | 5:58 |
| 1987-10 | Take Me to the River | cover | Canned Heat | 4:21 |
| 1988-07 | Take Me to the River | cover | Canned Heat | 4:08 |
| 1993-04-09 | Take Me to the River (live bootleg, 1993-04-05: HUB Ballroom, Seattle, WA, USA) | cover and live | Phish | 4:06 |
| 1995-01-12 | Take Me to the River (live, 1995-01-12: Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City, NY, USA) | live | Al Green | 5:21 |
| 1995-04-01 | Take Me to the River (live, 1995‐04‐01: Memphis Pyramid, Memphis, TN, USA) | cover and live | Grateful Dead | ?:?? |
| 1995-06-30 | Take Me to the River (live, 1995-06-30: Three Rivers Stadium, Pittsburgh, PA, USA) | cover and live | Grateful Dead | 4:54 |
| 1995-07-06 | Take Me to the River (live, 1995‐07‐06: Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre, Maryland Heights, MO, USA) | cover and live | Grateful Dead | ?:?? |
| 1996-01-02 – 1996-01-03 | Take Me to the River | cover and live | Eva Cassidy | 3:53 |
| 1996-01-03 | Take Me to the River (live, 1996-01-03: Blues Alley, Washington DC) | cover and live | Eva Cassidy | 3:55 |
| 1996-01-03 | Take Me to the River (live, 1996-01-03: Blues Alley, Washington DC) | cover and live | Eva Cassidy | 3:57 |
| 1997-05-12 – 1997-05-16 | Take me to the river | cover | Pee Wee Ellis | 5:25 |
| 1999-10-23 | Take Me to the River (live, 1999-10-23: White House, Washington, DC, United States) | live | Al Green with B.B. King, Sheryl Crow and Lenny Kravitz | 4:56 |
| 1999-11-29 | Tenth Avenue Freeze‐Out (live, 1999‐11‐29: Target Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA) | cover, live and partial | Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band | ?:?? |
| 2000-06-29 – 2000-07-01 | Tenth Avenue Freeze‐Out (live, 2000‐06‐29 and 2000‐07‐01: Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY, USA) | cover, live and partial | Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band | 16:09 |
| 2001-09-25 | 96 Tears / Take Me to the River (live, 2001-09-25: Stella Blue, Asheville, NC, USA) | cover, live and medley | Tom Tom Club | 8:18 |
| 2001-10-12 – 2001-10-14 | Take Me to the River | cover | Green Onions | 3:21 |
| 2001-10-14 | Take Me to the River (live: 2001-10-14: Clubhouse Music Studio, Cock Island, CT, USA) | cover and live | Tom Tom Club | 4:59 |
| 2003-07-26 | As Above, So Below /Take Me to the River (live, 2003-07-26: Indian Lookout Country Club, Mariaville, NY, USA) | cover, live and medley | Tom Tom Club | 11:17 |
| 2007 | Take Me to the River | cover | Guy Sebastian | 5:33 |
| 2008-05 | Take Me to the River (live, 2008-05: The Palms, Melbourne, VIC, AU) | cover and live | Guy Sebastian | 4:38 |
| Ghostdancing / Take Me to the River / Gloria (live, 2013‐11‐30: The O₂ Arena, London, UK) | cover and live | Simple Minds | 11:38 | |
| Take Me to the River | cover and live | The Commitments | 5:20 | |
| Take Me to the River | Al Green | 3:44 | ||
| Take Me to the River | cover | Foghat | 4:43 | |
| Take Me to the River | cover | Bluesounds | 6:08 | |
| Take Me to the River | cover | Delbert McClinton | 3:27 | |
| Take Me to the River | cover | The Gizmos | 2:04 | |
| Take Me to the River | cover | Henning Stærk | 4:16 | |
| Take Me to the River | cover | Mitch Ryder | 5:18 | |
| Take Me to the River | cover and live | Lurrie Bell | ?:?? | |
| Take Me to the River | cover | Diane Schuur | 5:17 | |
| Take Me to the River | Talking Heads | 6:27 | ||
| Take Me to the River | Talking Heads | 6:18 | ||
| Take Me to the River | cover | Annie Lennox | 3:33 | |
| Take Me to the River | cover | Per Chr. Frost | ?:?? | |
| Take Me to the River | cover | Rick Braun | 4:34 | |
| Take Me to the River (live, 2008-08-16: Roadhouse Rags, Austin, TX, USA) | live | Larry Wilson and His Blue City Knights | 5:28 | |
| Take Me to the River | cover | Syl Johnson | 3:04 | |
| Take Me to the River | Tom Jones | 2:53 | ||
| Take Me to the River | Louise Baranger | 4:37 | ||
| Take Me to the River | cover | Syl Johnson | 3:08 | |
| Take Me to the River | cover | Syl Johnson | 3:05 | |
| Take Me to the River (live, 1983‐12: Pantages Theater, Hollywood, CA, USA) | live | Talking Heads | 5:33 | |
| Take Me to the River | cover | The Commitments | 3:39 | |
| Take Me to the River | cover | Booker T. Jones | 3:47 | |
| Take Me to the River | cover | Ida Sand & Stockholm Underground | ?:?? | |
| Take Me to the River | cover | Kaleida | 3:22 | |
| Take Me to the River | Talking Heads | 5:37 | ||
| Take Me to the River (live, 1980‐12‐17: Palazzo dello Sport, Rome, Italy) | Talking Heads | 5:49 | ||
| Take Me to the River | cover | The Levon Helm Band | 4:52 | |
| Take Me to the River | Talking Heads | 3:37 | ||
| Take Me to the River (live, 1979‐08‐08: Berkley Performance Center, Berkley, CA, USA) | Talking Heads | 5:58 | ||
| Take Me to the River | live | Talking Heads | 5:37 | |
| Take Me to the River | Talking Heads | 5:33 | ||
| Take Me to the River | Talking Heads | ?:?? | ||
| Take Me to the River (live, 1980‐12‐17: Palazzo dello Sport, Rome, Italy) | Talking Heads | 5:49 | ||
| Take Me to the River | cover | John Boutté | 4:15 | |
| Take Me to the River | Talking Heads | ?:?? | ||
| Take Me to the River | Talking Heads | 5:29 | ||
| Take Me to the River | Talking Heads | 5:44 | ||
| Take Me to the River | Talking Heads | 5:37 | ||
| Take Me to the River | Talking Heads | 3:57 | ||
| Take Me to the River | cover | Mitch Ryder feat. Engerling | 9:21 | |
| Take Me to the River | cover | Nessa Morgan & Ross Wilson | 2:58 | |
| Take Me to the River | cover | Grand Wazoo | ?:?? | |
| Take Me to the River | cover | Mosaic Whispers | 4:25 | |
| Take Me to the River | Tom Jones | 2:53 | ||
| Take Me to the River (live) | live | Tom Jones | 3:39 | |
| Take Me to the River (live: The Tom Jones Show, Vancouver, Canada) | cover and live | Tom Jones | 3:01 | |
| Take Me to the River | cover | Etta James | 5:03 | |
| Take Me to the River | cover | Daltons | 5:41 | |
| Take Me to the River | cover | Bryan Ferry | 4:29 | |
| Take Me to the River | cover | Mama's Pit | 4:38 | |
| Take Me to the River | cover | Nick Austin | 4:18 | |
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