Song of the Day 9/29: Bob Dylan, “High Water (For Charley Patton)”

I know people in Naples, Fla. I feel even sorrier for them than usual today.

Most blues songs about high water trace back to the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, but Bob Dylan has contributed his share to the canon, from “Down in the Flood” on the Basement Tapes to this tune from 2001’s “Love and Theft,” his consummate Americana album. The song took its title from a Charley Patton 45, “High Water Everywhere,” recorded just two years after the Great Mississippi Flood.