“Pikeville Flood” is an original bluegrass song by Blue Highway, the acclaimed contemporary band, who recorded it for their 1998 album “Midnight Storm.”
The song is a flood-disaster narrative, a type with deep roots in American song. Its lyric follows the rising water as it overruns a town and a dam, sweeping away homes and lives, and dwells on the helplessness and loss left in its wake. That kind of vivid, dramatic storytelling was a strength of Blue Highway’s writing.
Blue Highway, formed in the mid-1990s, became one of the most respected bands in modern bluegrass, known for tight musicianship and a strong book of original songs. “Pikeville Flood” stands among the story songs that helped build that reputation.
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