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“The River” by Live
From the album Songs From Black Mountain (2006)
“The River” by Live appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 2006. It was first released in 2006 on the album Songs From Black Mountain. Its best result is #28 on The Bear Top 107 Songs of 2006. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #53 hard rock song of 2006 and #353 of the '00s.
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"The River" was the song Live chose to lead Songs from Black Mountain into the world in 2006, the first single from the band's eighth album, issued on Radioactive. Ed Kowalczyk sings it front and center and stacks his own backing vocals behind the lead, and he shares the guitars with Chad Taylor while Patrick Dahlheimer plays electric bass and Chad Gracey drums. It's earnest, big-hearted alt-rock, built to swell rather than snarl.
In the States it was never sold as a commercial single, which kept it off Billboard's Hot 100 Airplay chart altogether, but adult pop stations made room for it and pushed it to No. 33 on the Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks chart.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 28 | The Bear Ottawa, ON | The Bear Top 107 Songs of 2006 | 107 |
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