Mississippi River Songs

The Mississippi River has inspired generations of musicians to write songs about it. In the list below, you will find songs that go back to the beginning of recorded music and others that were recorded in the past year. Many of the songs are from genres we now call roots music or Americana—traditional blues and country—but the list also includes a number of rock songs, modern country, jazz, and soul. I haven’t come across many hip hop songs, yet, but I’m still looking.

Check back often, as I’m continually updating the table. The first time I posted the list, it included about 70 songs; you can see how long the list is now.

HINT: Check out the piece I wrote about the history of music along the Mississippi River.

I’m rather obsessive when it comes to making lists. I like making them, and I like figuring out criteria to make them work. I’m weird that way. After spending a couple of months compiling this list, I realized that my first set of criteria just weren’t going to work. They were too broad, mostly because I wanted to include songs about places along the river, even if the river isn’t mentioned. It didn’t take long for me to figure out that I was creating a list without end, especially after I found a web site that listed over 1000 songs about Memphis alone. I can only imagine the number of songs that have been written about New Orleans. In the revised list, I have therefore dropped songs that didn’t at least mention the Mississippi River, even if it is about a river town, which I had to drop some of my favorite songs likes St. Louis Blues and Going Back to Memphis. Maybe someday I’ll do a separate list of songs about river towns.

So here are the simple rules I am following now to decide whether a song is about the Mississippi River:

The song is about the Mississippi River (duh!); or
The lyrics or song title reference the Mississippi River; or
The song is about a river without naming the Mississippi specifically but composed by or performed by an artist who lives/lived along the Mississippi River; or
The lyrics are a bit ambiguous (is it about the state of Mississippi? the River Mississippi?), but I think it’s close enough. It is my list, after all.

Some of the songs in this list are classics that have been recorded multiple times by many artists. I doubt if I’ll ever get around to listing each version of those songs, but right now I’m trying to include the first recorded version plus any other versions that I think are fun or interesting. This is why I’ve included several versions of Ol’ Man River, like the reggae interpretation by The Techniques.

Between you and me, I don’t care for every song on the list, but that doesn’t really matter; I’m just trying to compile a list t of songs about the Mississippi River Valley. I’ll let you decide which ones you like and which you don’t.

Right now, these are my favorites:

A Change is Gonna Come: Sam Cooke
Big River: Johnny Cash
Down to Memphis: J.J. Cale
Floating Bridge: Sleepy John Estes
Lee County Flood: William Elliott Whitmore
Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man: Loretta Lynn & Conway Twitty
Miss the Mississippi and You: Jimmie Rodgers
Mississippi: Ray Bonneville
Mississippi Moon: Greg Brown
Mississippi River Blues: Big Bill Broonzy
Proud Mary: Ike & Tina Turner
Shanty Boat Blues: Jimmy Murphy
To Be Free: Fontella Bass
Watching the River Flow: Leon Russell

This is Mississippi River Songs version 2.0. Feel free to tell me about other songs about the Mississippi River, and let’s grow this list.

NEW: I’ve created a playlist in Spotify that includes many of these songs. Get to it here.

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Notes about the table: The first recorded version of each song is noted with an asterisk (*). Some song titles have been used by multiple songwriters, which makes compiling a list like this a challenge. To help you tell the difference between a remake of an existing song and a new song that just happens to have the the same title as an existing song, I’m using superscripts (numbers) to set the versions apart. So, each song with a superscript “1” is the same song recorded by different artists, while a superscript “2” for that same title indicates that it is a different song.

Songs about the Mississippi River

Song	Artist	From	Year
1927 Flood, The	Elders McIntorsh and Edwards	Memphis Gospel: Complete Works: 1927-1929 (1998)	1928
1927 Mississippi - Didn't It Rain	Wild Goose Nation		2001
…Dead in the Water [entire EP]	Shedding	…Dead in the Water	2007
#724 Mississippi Side A 917.3	Taylor Rust		2011
(I'm Going Back to) Bottomland	Clarence Williams and His Orchestra	Bottomland	1927
(Roll on) Mississippi	Strangeloves, The	I Want Candy	1965
(The Other End of) the Mississippi River Blues	Pat Donohue	Backroads	2003
A Change is Gonna Come	Sam Cooke	Ain't That Good News	1964
A Country Boy Can Survive	Hank Williams, Jr	Hank Williams, Jr	1981
A Feather's Not a Bird	Rosanne Cash	The River & the Thread	2014
A Mississippi River Poem: Concerto in D Minor for Violin	Max W. Gottschalk	[not sure if this was ever recorded]	1955
A Mississippi River Symphony	The Women's Philharmonic	Symphony, No. 3, Mississippi River (2008)	1934
A Mississippi Song	Thomas and Theresa	A Mississippi Song	2012
Across the Mississippi	Matt Schatz and Jack Herrick	Georama	2016
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra & William Perry	Perry: The Innocents Abroad and Other Mark Twain Films, 1980-1985 (2008)	1985
Algiers Point	David Booth	Consolation	2010
Alone in Memphis	Austin Lucas	Stay Reckless	2013
Along for the Ride	Okee Dokee Brothers	Can You Canoe? A Mississippi River Adventure Album	2011
Along the Blue Highway	Larry Long	Run for Freedom, Sweet Thunder	1983
Along the Mississippi	Night Watchmen, The	Rain Come Down	2005
Amtrak Song	Jeffrey C. Capps	The Muddy and the Blue	2009
And It Rained	Mr. Blink	Throwback	2014
And the Mississippi Delta Cried	Sammy Walker	Sammy Walker	2008
Arrivederci Mississippi	Ackermans, The	Jump in the River Tonight	2010
At the Mississippi Cabaret	St. Louis Ragtimers	St. Louis Ragtimers, Vol. 3	2001
At the Mississippi Cabaret*	American Quartet	Victor #17650	1914
Atchafalaya	Andrew McKnight	Traveler	1994
Autumn Sunset	Nick Shattuck	Chorus and Verse	2010
Back-Water Blues	Bessie Smith	Empress of the Blues, Vol. 2, 1926-1933 (2008)	1927
Ballad of Blanche Leathers	Charlie Ipcar	http://www.charlieipcar.com/lyrics/blanche.htm	2015
Ballad of John Banvard, The	Piñataland	Songs for the Forgotten Future, Vol. 2	2008
Banging Camp	Hold Steady, The	Separation Sunday	2005
Banks of the Mississippi River, The	Idle Ecstatic		2011
Banks of the Old Mississippi, The	Shawnee Kilgore	Second Hand Dress	2009
Baptize Me in the Mississippi River	Jon Waterman	Waterman	2009
Baptized in Dirty Water	Chris Thomas King	Rise	2006
barge crossing	Shedding	…Dead in the Water	2007
Basin Street Blues	Dr. John	Goin' Back to New Orleans	1992
Battle of New Orleans	Johnny Horton	Battle of New Orleans (1971)	1959
Battle of New Orleans	Hammerlock	Anthems for Outlaws	1999
Battle of New Orleans	Lonnie Donegan and His Skiffle Group	King of Skiffle (1994)	1959
Battle of New Orleans	Doug Kershaw	Alive & Pickin'	1975
Battle of New Orleans*	Jimmy Driftwood	Newly Discovered Early American Folk Songs	1958
Beale Street Blues	Louis Armstrong	Louis Armstrong Plays W. C. Handy	1954
Beale Street Blues*	W.C. Handy	Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Warming by the Devil's Fire (2002)	1917
Beaver That Ate Moline, The	Michael "Hawkeye" Herman		1995
Beefsteak When I'm Hungry		Steamboatin' Days (1944) by M. Wheeler
Belly Full of Whiskey (Down the Mississippi)	Whiskey War Mountain Rebellion	Rock U Festival/2012 Compilation	2012
Beside the Mississippi River	Sounds of Nature, The	Just Nature	2010
Best Blues Come From Old Men	Young and Yata	Snow Has Fallen	2008
Better Man	Leon Bridges	Coming Home	2015
Big Missouri	[never recorded?]	Tom Sawyer: A Musical Play in 1 Act and 7 Scenes	1956
Big Muddy River1*	Tom Pacheco	Bluefields	1995
Big Muddy River2*	Traveled Ground	Traveled Ground	2008
Big Muddy1*	Mojo Blues Band	Blues Parade 2000	1999
Big Muddy2*	Jack Williams	Walkin' Dreams	2003
Big Muddy3*	Step Into the Blue	Step Into the Blue	2006
Big Muddy4*	484 South Band, The	Mississippi Nights	2009
big old river	bad heart bull	fight like a girl	2011
Big River, Big Man	Claude King	Meet Claude King	1961
Big River1	Grateful Dead	Steal Your Face	1976
Big River1*	Johnny Cash	Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar	1957
Big River2*	Zachary Richard	Zack's Bon Ton	1988
Big River3*	Kevin Fowler	Chippin' Away	2011
Big Water	Tom Russell with Iris DeMent	The Long Way Around	1997
Black Water	Doobie Brothers	What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits	1974
Blackwater Man	Terry Pepple	soundcloud.com	2015
Blackwater Music	Spencer Bohren	Blackwater Music	2011
Bottomland	Clarence Williams and His Orchestra	Bottomland	1927
Bottomlands	Shady Mix	Bottomlands	1998
Bound to Talk	John D. Lamb	Soundcloud.com	2012
Bourbon Street Cowboy	Dash Rip Rock	Country Girlfriend	2008
Broken Levee Blues	Broken Levee Blues	Lonnie Johnson, Vol. 4 (1928-19290 [1991]	1928
Brother	Okee Dokee Brothers	Can You Canoe? A Mississippi River Adventure Album	2011
Brother Lee	Citizen Cope	Every Waking Moment	2006
Bullfrog Opera, The	Okee Dokee Brothers	Can You Canoe? A Mississippi River Adventure Album	2011
Burlington	Eric Pettit Lion	Eric Pettit Lion	2014
Burning of the Grand Republic, The	John Hartford	No End of Love	2008
Bury Me on the Banks of the Mississippi River	Remus Tucker Band, The	South of New Orleans	2013
By the Little Mississippi River	Paul LaChapelle	Nightscapes: Midnight Sounds from the Wild	2000
By the River (Mississippi)	Phil Mitchell Band	America	2010
Bye You Bye	Joe Price	Requests	1999
Cairo Blues1*	Melvin "Little Son" Jackson	Blues Come to Texas (1981)	1949
Cairo Blues2*	James "Son" Thomas	Hard Times (2003)	1968
Cairo, Illinois	Pokey LaFarge	Beat, Move, and Shake	2008
Cajun Stomp	Kurt Adametz	ORF Universum Vol. 16: Ol' Man River - Machtiger Mississippi	2011
California	Havalina Rail Co.	America	1999
Campin' Tent	Okee Dokee Brothers	Can You Canoe? A Mississippi River Adventure Album	2011
Can We Find a Reason?	Lenny Kravitz	5	1998
Can You Canoe	Okee Dokee Brothers	Can You Canoe? A Mississippi River Adventure Album	2011
Can't Stop the Mississippi	Charley Pride	Moody Woman	1989
Captain Walter Karnath	Eddie Allen	The Trempealeau Hotel	1985
Carry Them River	David G. Smith	Non-Fiction	2010
Casey Bill	Earl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band	Good for What Ails You: Music of the Medicine Shows, 1926-1937 (2005)	1927
Casey Jones Went Down on the Robert E. Lee	Arthur Collins and Byron G. Harlan	archive.org	1913
Catfish	Big Jack Johnson	River of Song: A Musical Journey Down the Mississippi	1996
Catfish Blues	John Lee Hooker	John Lee Hooker Fifty Favorites (2002)	1949
Catfish Blues	Taj Mahal & Toumani Diabate	Kulanjan	1999
Catfish Blues	Jimi Hendrix	Electric Ladyland	1968
Catfish Blues (Fishin' After Me)	BB King	My Kind of Blues	1961
Catfish Blues*	Robert Petway	Cotton Pickin" Blues (2000)	1941
Catfish John	Bjoro Haland	My Nashville Album	2004
Catfish John*	Johnny Russell	Catfish John	1972
Change Your Ways or Die	Cactus Blossoms	You're Dreaming	2016
Chemical Voodoo	Andrew McKnight	Where This River Runs	1998
City of New Orleans	Arlo Guthrie	Hobo's Lullaby	1972
City of the King	Owen Temple	Dollars and Dimes	2009
Come Here, Dog, and Get Your Bone	Jim Henry	Deep River of Song: Mississippi Saints & Sinners	1936
Comet Ride	Ricky Skaggs	Mark Twain: Words and Music	2011
Cotton Was King	Widespread Panic	Dirty Side Down	2010
Cottonmouth Blues	Doctor G And The Mudcats	Swampy Tonk Blues	2015
Crawdaddy Moonshine	Doctor G and the Mudcats	My Daddy's Blues	2010
Crossing Mississippi	Jeffrey Foucault	Miles From the Lightning	2001
Crossing the Mississippi Again	Joni Laurence	With No Apology	2006
Crossroads	Eric Clapton and the Powerhouse	What's Shakin'	1966
D'Artagnan's Theme	Citizen Cope	Clarence Greenwood Recordings	2003
Dancin' in the Mississippi Mud	Peter Ostroushko	Minnesota: A History of the Land	2005
Darkness	Spencer Bohren	Present Tense	1994
Darkness on the Delta	Eden Brent	Mississippi Number One	2008
De La Salle	Kurt Adametz	ORF Universum Vol. 16: Ol' Man River - Machtiger Mississippi	2011
Deep Blue Sea Blues	Tommy McClennan	Tommy McClennan, Vol. 2: Cross Cut Saw (2005)	1941
Deep River	John Oates	Mississippi Mile	2011
Deep River Blues	Willard Robison	archive.org	1928
Deep River Blues	Whitey Kaufman Orchestra	Victor recording #20125	1925
Deep River Blues*	Rosa Henderson	Rosa Henderson Vol. 3 (1924-1926) [1995]	1924
Deep River Blues*	Katherine Handy		1924
Delta Blues Queen	Stina Stenerud	Kissing Fools	2009
Delta Queen	Andy Owens Project, The	A Compilation	2007
Delta Queen	Mason Porter	Thunder in the Valley	2009
Delta Queen	Dan Rivers	Louisiana Sky	2005
Delta Queen	Country Gentlemen	Bluegrass: Down by the River (2012)	1974
Delta Queen	New Jordal Swingers	45 Beste - 30 Ar Med Rock'n'Roll	2004
Delta Queen	Larry Goodwin	Beulah Went to Memphis	1999
Delta Queen	Lonesome Standard Time	Lonesome Standard Time	2006
Delta Queen	Leftover Salmon	Leftover Salmon	2004
Delta Queen	PS	Lazy River	2011
Delta Queen	Under the Hood	Under the Hood	2010
Delta Queen	Howlin' Brothers, The	Howl	2013
Delta Queen (Back Down River)	Faine Jade's Candlepower	Delta Queen (Back Down River)	2012
Delta Queen - Single	Danny O'Keefe	So Long Harry Truman	2005
Delta Queen Waltz	John Hartford	Down on the River	1989
Dem Mississippi River Boys	Stinky Rodney	Reverbnation.com
Devil and the Delta Queen, The	Adam Mcbride-Smith	Traveller's Moon	2012
Dink's Blues	Dink	American Ballads and Folks Songs by John & Alan Lomax	1934
Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans	Louis Armstrong	Greatest Hits (1996)	1946
Dollars and Dimes	Owen Temple	Dollars and Dimes	2009
Don't Need It	William Elliott Whitmore	Field Songs	2011
Down by the Mississippi River	E-Flat Rigs, The		2010
Down by the River	Bing Crosby	Bing Crosby at the Movies	1935
Down by the Riverside	Snooks Eaglin	Country Boy Down in New Orleans	1958
Down in Mississippi (Up to No Good)	Sugarland	Twice the Speed of Life	2004
Down in the Swamp	Tab Benoit	Wetlands	2002
Down on the Levee Blues	Forrest City Joe (Joe B. Pugh)	Association for Cultural Equity (T911R02)	1959
Down on the Levee1*	Peerless Quartet		1912
Down on the Levee2*	John Hartford	No End of Love	1996
Down on the Mississippi (Levee and Steamboat Scenes)	American Quartet	archive.org	1911
Down River Blues	Theodore	Songs for the Weary	2007
Down Stream	Wingy Manone and His Orchestra	Bluebird B-7391	1938
Down the Mississippi	Al Rose	My First Posthumous Release	2008
Down to Memphis	J.J. Cale	Roll On	2009
Down to the Levee1*	Ellis Kell Band	Down to the Levee	1993
Down to the Levee2*	Shady Mix	Bottomlands	1998
Down to the Mississippi	Ola Onabule	Mississippi - Tales of the Last River Rat	2005
Downstream	Rainmakers	The Rainmakers	1986
Drains to the Mississippi	Banner Pilot	Collapser	2009
Dreamboat Steamboat Days	Blue Canvas Orchestra	Wild Woods & Waters	2010
Driftless Moon	Big Blue Sky	River's Rising	2001
Dusky Stevedore	Louis Armstrong	1933	1933
Dusky Stevedore*	Mary Dixon	Tight Women and Loose Bands, 1921-1931 [2001]	1928
East St. Louis Blues	Luella Miller	Luella Miller, 1926-1928	1928
Ella B, The	Amazing Rhythm Aces	Stacked Deck	1975
Evangeline	Matt Schatz and Jack Herrick	Georama	2016
Evangeline	Emmylou Harris	Evangeline	1981
Evangeline*	Levon Helm Band/Emmylou Harris	The Last Waltz	1976
Evil in the Delta	Doctor G and the Mudcats	Doctor G and the Mudcats	2010
Falling Waters	Charlie Maguire	Great Mississippi	2001
Farewell High Water Blues	Vera Smith	[Unreleased]	1928
Father	Kentucky Knife Fight	Hush Hush	2013
Father of Rivers	Chas Evans	Mississippi Sounds	2013
Feel the Quiet River Rage	Live	Distance to Here, The	1999
Feelin' Good in the City	Dem Boys	Roll with the Black and Gold	2009
Feels Like Rain	John Hiatt	Slow Turning	1988
Ferd Herold Blues		Steamboatin' Days (1944) by M. Wheeler
Ferry Man	Aurora Nealand & The Red Roses	Treme: Music From The HBO Original Series - Season 2	2012
Fire and Thunder Blues	Mary Dixon	Blue Girls, Vol. 2: 1928-1930 (1997)	1929
First Nations	Charlie Maguire	Great Mississippi	2001
Fishin' on the Mississippi River	Buck Owens	Buck Owens & His Buckaroos in Japan!	1967
Fishing River	Charlie Maguire	Great Mississippi	2001
Five Feet High and Rising	Johnny Cash	The Essential Johnny Cash, 1955-1983	1959
Float Me Down the River	Duke Heitger	Duke Heitger's Steamboat Stompers	1998
Floating Bridge	Sleepy John Estes	Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 2: 1937-1941 (1990)	1937
Floating Down to Cotton Town	Wingy Manone and His Orchestra	Bluebird B-6605	1936
Flood and Thunder Blues	James Crawford	Male Blues of the Twenties (1996)	1928
Flood Blues, The	Sippie Wallace with Louis Armstrong	Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 2: 1925-1945 (1995)	1927
Flood of '65	Ellis Kell Band	Down to the Levee	1993
Flood Water	Eric Bibb	Booker's Guitar	2010
Flood Water Blues1*	Casey Bill Weldon	Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 1: 1935-1936 (1994)	1935
Flood Water Blues2*	Lonnie Johnson	Lonnie Johnson, Vol. 1: 1937-1940 (1996)	1937
Flood, The2*	Monads, The	Ornery	2008
Flood1*	Muddy Waters	King of Chicago Blues (2006)	1952
Flow Mississippi Flow	Chris Thomas King	Rise	2006
Foggy Bayou Blues	Kurt Adametz	ORF Universum Vol. 16: Ol' Man River - Machtiger Mississippi	2011
Follow the River	Nick Shattuck	Chorus and Verse	2010
Following the Mississippi River	je suis le petit chevalier	A Guide to the Sun	2012
For You My Love	Eddie Allen	The Trempealeau Hotel	1985
Four Rivers, The	Paul Robeson	Peach Arch Concerts	1953
Frenchman Street Poem	Sunil K. Chopra	Honey Moon	2012
From Here	Kate Gersing	The Flood	2001
From the Bed of the Mississippi River	Glass Empires	Glass Empires EP	2008
From the Upper Mississippi	Rum Drum Ramblers	Hey Lordy Mama Get Up and Go	2008
Fuckin' Mississippi	Horsecock Kids	Self-Indulgent Music	1998
Galena Rain 1937	Ardy Michaels	Some of the Lucky	2002
Get Down, River	Bottle Rockets	Leftovers (1998)	1995
Getting' Down in a River Town	Jess and Tim	soundcloud.com	2014
Ghost	Indigo Girls	Rites of Passage	1992
Ghost of 1927	Terence Blanchard	A Tale of God's Will: Requium for Katrina	2007
Ghost of Vicksburg, The	Stone Coyotes, The	Fire It Up	2005
Ghosts Along the Mississippi	Down	Down II	2002
Ginseng Sullivan	Norman Blake	Back Home in Sulphur Springs	1972
Glendy Burk, The		Traditional (written by Stephen Foster)	1860
Goin' Down To Becky Thatcher	Henry Brown	Biddle Street Barrelhousin' (2000)
Goin' Down to Memphis	Townes Van Zandt	No Deeper Blue	1994
Going Back to Louisiana	Truckstop Honeymoon	Steamboat in a Cornfield	2011
Going Down The Mississippi River	Den Desmond	soundcloud.com	2010
Going Down to the River	Mississippi Fred McDowell	An Introduction to Mississippi Fred McDowell (2007)	1959
Going to the Country	Pokey LaFarge	Manic Revelations	2017
Going to the River	Fats Domino	Carry on Rockin'	1955
Gold Dust Fire, The		Steamboatin' Days (1944) by M. Wheeler
Golden City		Steamboatin' Days (1944) by M. Wheeler
Gone on the River	Kevin Dukes	Gone on the River	2011
Gonna Be Free	Doctor G and the Mudcats	My Daddy's Blues	2010
Got the South in My Soul	Paul Robeson	Inimitable Paul Robeson	1932
Graceland	Paul Simon	Graceland	1986
Grant Slept Here	Stace England	Greetings From Cairo, Illinois	2005
Great Flood of '93, The	Michael "Hawkeye" Herman	Blues Alive! (1997)	1993
Great Flood, The	Bill Frisell with film by Bill Morrison	The Great Flood	2012
Great Mississippi	Charlie Maguire	Great Mississippi	2001
Great Mississippi River Flood of 1927, The	Royal Palace at Memphis	The Great Mississippi River Flood of 1927	2011
Great Mississippi River Oil Slick, The [whole CD]	Steve Palmer	The Great Mississippi River Oil Slick	2012
Great River Road	Ryley Walker	All Kinds of You	2014
Great River Road, The	Michael "Hawkeye" Herman	Blues Alive!	1997
Great Sultana, The	Back Porch Majority	Riverboat Days!	1965
Greenville Levee Blues	Alice Pearson	Barrelhouse Women, Vol. 2: 1924-1928 (2005)	1927
Gunfight on the Westbank of the Mississippi	Upsessions, The	Below the Belt	2011
Gwineter Harness In De Mornin' Soon	Dink	American Ballads and Folks Songs by John & Alan Lomax	1934
Hallelujah (Jeff Buckley Drown in the Mississippi River)	B Side Bullshit	Soundcloud.com	2013
Happy on the Mississippi Shore	Delmore Brothers	Brown's Ferry Blues (1971)	1940
Hard Water Blues	Raymond Boyd	[Unreleased]	1927
Has Anyone Seen Mattie?	Spencer Bohren	Blackwater Music (2011 reissue)	1984
Heart of the Night	Poco	Legend	1978
Heaven Forbid	Grahams, The	Riverman's Daughter	2013
helena song	g. s. o'rin	for helena	2012
Hernando de Soto	Kurt Adametz	ORF Universum Vol. 16: Ol' Man River - Machtiger Mississippi	2011
Hey, Minnesota	Ann Reed	Songs for Minnesota	2008
High As A Poor Boy Gets	Doctor G and the Mudcats	My Daddy's Blues	2010
High Side of the Low End, The	Adrian Kosky	High Side of the Low End, The	2006
High Water	Paul Robeson	Big Fella (1994)	1930
High Water (for Charley Patton)	Bob Dylan	Love and Theft	2001
High Water Blues	Blue Belle	St. Louis Women, Vol. 1: 1927-1929 (1995)	1927
High Water Everywhere, Part 1	Charley Patton	Founder of the Delta Blues (1969)	1929
High Water Everywhere, Part 2	Charley Patton	Founder of the Delta Blues (1969)	1929
Highway Miles	Gavin Creel	The Flood	2001
Hockey Games	Switchback	Ghosts of the River Folk	2010
Hold On	Tim Armstrong	A Poet's Life	2006
Homeless Blues	Bessie Smith	Complete Recordings, Vol. 3 (1992)	1927
Hoover Dam	Sugar	Copper Blue	1992
Huck Finn Blues	Brad Paisley	Mark Twain: Words and Music	2011
Huckleberry Finn	Cathy Barton & Dave Para	Living on the River	2000
I Ain't No Stranger, I Been Down in the Circle Before	Sampson Pittman	American Folk Center 1477 A	1936
I Am the Big Easy	Ray Bonneville	Goin' By Feel	2007
I Am Waitin' on the Levee		Steamboatin' Days (1944) by M. Wheeler
I Bought the Mississippi River	Sparks	Big Beat	1976
I Hope This Whole Thing Didn't Frighten You	Hold Steady, The	Teeth Dreams	2014
I Was Born on the River		Steamboatin' Days (1944) by M. Wheeler
I'd Be in New Orleans	Jey Witten		2013
I'm From Minnesota	Charlie Maguire	Harbor Lights	1998
I'm Goin' Down the Rivuh Befo' Long		Steamboatin' Days (1944) by M. Wheeler
I'm Goin' Up the Rivuh		Steamboatin' Days (1944) by M. Wheeler
I'm Gonna Ride that Steamboat	Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper	Fired Up	2011
I'm Wukin' My Way Back Home		Steamboatin' Days (1944) by M. Wheeler
I've Come Back (My River)	Charlie Maguire	Good Eye Blind	2007
If You Miss Me at the Back of the Bus	Pete Seeger	We Shall Overcome: The Complete Carnegie Hall Concert, June 8, 1963	1963
If You're in New York	Grahams, The	Riverman's Daughter	2013
Illinois Indians	Kurt Adametz	ORF Universum Vol. 16: Ol' Man River - Machtiger Mississippi	2011
In the Good Old Steamboat Days	Murry K. Hill	Phono-Cylinders, Vol. 2: Edited and from the Collection of George A. Blacker (1961)	1907
In the Mississippi River	Mavis Staples	We'll Never Turn Back	2007
In the Mississippi River*	Freedom Singers, The	Voices of the Civil Rights Movement: Black American Freedom Songs 1960-1966 (1997)	1965
In the Mood for Memphis	Gary Johns	In the Mood for Memphis	2003
In-Between Friends	Spencer Bohren	Born In A Biscayne	1984
Ink	Joe Diffie	Mark Twain: Words and Music	2011
Invasion on the Mississippi River	Jesper Kyd	Hitman: Blood Money Original Soundtrack	2006
It's Amazing the Things That Float	Kate Baldwin	The Flood	2001
It's the Blues Tonight	Doctor G And The Mudcats	Swampy Tonk Blues	2015
Itasca: A Place of Beginnings	Charlie Maguire	Wildnerness Road (formerly Stepping Stones)	2002
J'ai été à la rivière (I Went to the River)	Camey Doucet	Mom, I'm Still Your Little Boy	1997
Jackson's Gone Down the Mississippi	Jandek	Later On	1981
Jambalaya	Dick Rivers	Mississippi Rivers	1975
Jambalaya (On the Bayou)	Chuck Berry	Have Mercy - His Complete Chess Recordings 1969 - 1974	1974
Jambalaya (On the Bayou)	Doug Kershaw	Louisiana Man	1971
Jambalaya (On the Bayou)*	Hank Williams	20 of Hank Williams' Greatest Hits (1997)	1949
Jericho	Grahams, The	Riverman's Daughter	2013
Jesse Lee - River Child	Resnik Music Group	Soundcloud.com	2011
Joe Hoover's Mississippi Flood Song	Ernest V. Stoneman	Victor recording BVE 38919 [unreleased]	1927
John Gilbert		Steamboatin' Days (1944) by M. Wheeler
Jolly Roger/Pirates of the Mississippi	Pirates of the Mississippi	Pirates of the Mississippi	1990
Julia Belle Swain	John Hartford	Mark Twang	1976
Just a River	Brad Lee Uebinger	Soundcloud.com	2009
Kansas City Blues, Part 2	Lonnie Johnson	Lonnie Johnson Vol. 3 (1927 - 1928)	1927
Kansas City Blues, Part 3	Jim Jackson	Vocalion Records #1155	1928
Katie an' the Jim Lee Had a Little Race		Steamboatin' Days (1944) by M. Wheeler
Katrina	Hans Theessink	Slow Train	2007
Keokuk: The Water Power City			1911
Kingdom of Summer	Mr. Blink	Throwback	2014
Kiss You in the Coulee Region	Mike McAbee	Live at the Cresco Opera House	2001
L'Eau Haute (High Water Waltz)	Bartmon Montet, Joswell Dupuis		1929
L'Etoile Du Nord	Charlie Maguire	Harbor Lights	1998
La La Blues	Pokey LaFarge	Riverboat Soul	2009
La Vida de un Jaibero	Irván Pérez	River of Song: A Musical Journey Down the Mississippi	1997
Lake Itasca	Kurt Adametz	ORF Universum Vol. 16: Ol' Man River - Machtiger Mississippi	2011
Lanterns on the Levee	Kate Campbell	Songs from the Levee	1994
Last Day at Vicksburg	Bradley Walker	God Didn't Choose Sides	2013
Last Mississippi River Steamboat, The	Jerry Rasmussen	The Secret Life of Jerry Rasmussen	1985
Last Ride of the Delta Queen, The	Bawn in the Mash	Confluence	2008
Lazy 'Sippi Steamer Goin' Home	Louis Armstrong	Best of the Decca Years, Volume 2: The Composer	1940
Lazy Lazy River	Mississippi Sheiks	Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 2 (1930-1931)	1930
Lazy River	Hoagy Carmichael	Ole Buttermilk Sky (1998)	1931
Lazy River	Leon Redbone	Up a Lazy River	1992
Lazy River and New Orleans	PS	Lazy River	2011
Lazy Swing	Doctor G and the Mudcats	My Daddy's Blues	2010
Leaving Tennessee	Doctor G And The Mudcats	Swampy Tonk Blues	2015
Lee County Flood	William Elliott Whitmore	Song of the Blackbird	2006
less than natural wash	Shedding	…Dead in the Water	2007
Let Him Go on Mama	John Hartford	Mark Twang	1976
Letters from Vicksburg	Volunteers, The	Letters from Vicksburg	2012
Levee Blues	Bessie Jackson (aka Lucille Bogan)	Paramount #12459	1927
Levee Breaking Blues, parts 1 and 2	Happy Bud Harrison	Vocalion recording #5332	1929
Levee Broke, The	Zachary Richard	Last Kiss	2009
Levee Camp Blues	Big Joe Williams	Studio Blues	1961
Levee Camp Blues	Mississippi Fred McDowell	An Introduction to Mississippi Fred McDowell (2007)	1965
Levee Camp Blues	Son House	King of the Delta Blues (2005)	1941
Levee Camp Holler	Ed Lewis	Association for Cultural Equity (T886R04)	1959
Levee Camp Holler 2	Charley Berry	American Folklife Center 6667 B1	1942
Levee Camp Man Blues	Gene Campbell	Complete Recorded Works, 1929-1931 (1992)	1930
Levee Camp Moan	Washboard Sam	Washboard Sam, Vol. 6: 1941-1942	1941
Levee Camp Story	Sampson Pittman	American Folk Center 2477 B	1938
Levee Man Blues	Jelly Roll Morton	Winin' Boy Blues	1939
Levee's Gonna Break, The	Bob Dylan	Modern Times	2006
Levee, The	Jonny Lang	Wander This World	1998
Levees	Terence Blanchard	A Tale of God's Will: Requium for Katrina	2007
Lewis and Clark	Kurt Adametz	ORF Universum Vol. 16: Ol' Man River - Machtiger Mississippi	2011
Life on the Mississippi: The Romance of the River	Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra & William Perry	Perry: Innocents Abroad (The) and Other Mark Twain Films, 1980-1985 (2008)	1980
Light Out for the Territory (Mississippi River, Arkansas, April 8, 1990)	Gordon Hempton	Light Out for the Territory	2004
Light the River	Charlie Maguire	Great Mississippi	2001
Lighting Up the Mighty Mississippi	Cheryl Wheeler	Sylvia Hotel	1999
Listen to the River	David G. Smith	Non-Fiction	1978
Little Egypt Land	James Talley	Journey: The Second Voyage	2008
Live Free	Son Volt	Trace	1995
Loading Up The Mandy Lee	St. Louis Ragtimers	St. Louis Ragtimers, Vol. 3	2001
Loading Up The Mandy Lee*	American Quarter	Victor #17947	1916
Lonesome Refugee	Laura Smith	Edna Hicks, Hazel Meyers, Laura Smith: Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 2: 1923-27 (1996)	1927
Louisiana	Howlin' Brothers, The	Trouble	2014
Louisiana 1927	Randy Newman	Good Old Boys	1974
Louisiana Blue	Radney Foster	Del Rio, Tx 1959	1992
Louisiana Blue	Blues Basement	Blues Power	1993
Louisiana Flood	Paul Butterfield's Better Days	It All Comes Back	1973
Louisiana Man	Doug Kershaw	Diggy Diggy Lo (1999)	1961
Louisiana Woman	Doug Kershaw	Swamp Grass	1972
Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man	Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn	Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man	1973
Love You Like That	Canaan Smith	Bronco	2015
Lovely Memphis Day	Memphis All-Stars, The	Blues Train	2000
Low Land Moan	Clara Smith	Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 6: 1930-1932 (1995)	1930
Low Land Moan*	Lonnie Johnson	Lonnie Johnson, Vol. 3: 1927-1928 (1991)	1929
Low Levee - High Water	Chick Webb's Harlem Stompers	[Unreleased]	1927
M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I	Frances White	archive.org	1917
Macombrey Queen, The		Steamboatin' Days (1944) by M. Wheeler
Mad River	Monads, The	Ornery	2008
Made in Mississippi	Bobby Alexander & the Delta Mudcats	Made in Mississippi	2004
Magnolia Belle	Taylor Henry	Soundcloud.com	2012
Mama Mississippi	Sarah Quintana	Miss River	2015
Man From the Bayou	Maple Station	For Ella	2016
Mark Twain	Kingston Trio	Kingston Trio #16	1963
Mark Twain (On the Mississippi)	Back Porch Majority	Riverboat Days!	1965
Mary Gibbs	Charlie Maguire	Wildnerness Road (formerly Stepping Stones)	2002
Mayfly Dance, The	Switchback	Ghosts of the River Folk	2010
Memphis in May	Don McMinn	In the Mood for Memphis	2003
Memphis Skyline	Rufus Wainwright	want two	2004
Memphis Til Monday	Bob Cheevers	In the Mood for Memphis	2003
Memphis, Tennessee	Chuck Berry	Anthology (2000)	1959
Midnight on the Bayou	Remus Tucker Band, The	South of New Orleans	2013
Mighty Mississippi River	Tris Burns	Country Rocker	2012
Mighty Mississippi: Concerto for Cello, Orchestra, and Choir	Tim Keyes Consort with Sofia Nowik	Keyes: Mighty Mississippi, Concerto for Cello, Orchestra, and Choir	2007
Mighty Mississippi1	Back Porch Majority	Riverboat Days!	1965
Mighty Mississippi1*	New Christy Minstrels, The	Ramblin' Featuring Green, Green	1963
Mighty Mississippi2*	Dale Hawkins	Back Down to Louisiana	2006
Mighty Mississippi3*	Jay Collins	Rivers, Blues and Other People	2012
Mighty River	Kurt Adametz	ORF Universum Vol. 16: Ol' Man River - Machtiger Mississippi	2011
Mighty River	Louis Armstrong	1933	1933
Million Miles Away	Patrick Bloom	Moses	2008
Minneapolis	Mark Mallman	Minneapolis (single)	2011
Minneapolis	Ben Kyle	Ben Kyle	2012
Minnesota	Kristin Diable		2009
Minnesota Portraits I: Historic Fort Snelling	Calhoun-Isles Community Band	The Minnesota Portraits and Other Music by Carl Schroeder	2005
Minnesota Portraits III: Mississippi River	Calhoun-Isles Community Band	The Minnesota Portraits and Other Music by Carl Schroeder	2005
Miss Ferris	John Hartford	Headin' Down Into the Mystery Below	1978
Miss Ol' St. Louie	J.J. Cale	Guitar Man	1996
Miss River	Sarah Quintana	Miss River	2015
Miss that Mississippi	Steve Williams	Songs from the Redneck Yacht Club	2007
Miss the Mississippi	Bob Dylan	Tell Tale Signs: The Bootleg Series Volume 8	1992
Miss the Mississippi and You	Merle Haggard	Same Train, A Different Time	1969
Miss the Mississippi and You*	Jimmie Rodgers	RCA Country Legends: Jimmie Rodgers (2002)	1932
Missin' Mississippi	Charley Pride	The Power of Love	1984
Mississippi	Cactus Blossoms	You're Dreaming	2016
Mississippi	Kamikaze Cowboy	Hurry Sundown	1996
Mississippi (River of Dreams)	Adrian Mark Bianconi	An American Homecoming	2001
Mississippi and Me	Kate Campbell	Songs from the Levee	1994
Mississippi Basin	Louis Armstrong	1933	1933
Mississippi Belle	Chuck Pinnell	Twelve Rivers	2000
Mississippi Blood	Lynyrd Skynyrd	Last of a Dyin' Breed	2012
Mississippi Blues	KC Ray	Down the River	2001
Mississippi Blues (Home Town Toodle)	Clarence Williams' Washboard Band	Okeh #8672	1929
Mississippi Blues (Man who let a river go)	Nathan Bird	Soundcloud.com	2013
Mississippi Blues, The	Laura Smith	Edna Hicks, Hazel Meyers, Laura Smith: Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 2: 1923-27 (1996)	1927
Mississippi Boll Weevil	North Mississippi Allstars	Electric Blue Watermelon	2005
Mississippi Bound	Al Bernard	cylinders.library.ucsb.edu	1920
Mississippi Boweavil Blues*	Charley Patton	Founder of the Delta Blues (1969)	1929
Mississippi Chaser	David Linx	Where Rivers Join	1990
Mississippi Chillin'	Seth Edward	Acoustic Blues Plus	2010
Mississippi Days	Peerless Quartet		1916
Mississippi Delta	Bobbie Gentry	Ode to Billie Joe	1967
Mississippi Delta Blues	Kurt Adametz	ORF Universum Vol. 16: Ol' Man River - Machtiger Mississippi	2011
Mississippi Delta Blues1	Leon Redbone	Double Time	1977
Mississippi Delta Blues1*	Jimmie Rodgers	RCA Country Legends: Jimmie Rodgers (2002)	1933
Mississippi Delta City Blues	Chicago	Chicago: The Box (2003)	1972
Mississippi Delta Land	Johnny Cash	The Johnny Cash Show	1970
Mississippi Delta Queen	Tirk Wilder	I'm Letting Go	2000
Mississippi Delta Queen	Bobby Goldsboro	Summer (The First Time)	1973
Mississippi Delta Sunrise	Wadada Leo Smith	Kulture Jazz	1993
Mississippi Dream Boat	Kay Kyser and His Orchestra	Swing Fever (movie)	1943
Mississippi Dream1*	John Koellisch	Beyond the Blue River	1999
Mississippi Dream2*	Chyp Davis	In My Dreams	2006
Mississippi Dream3*	Benjamin Tucker	Wenonah	2007
Mississippi Five	Albion Ensemble	Mississippi Five - 20th Century Masterpieces for Wind Quintet	2006
Mississippi Flood	TJ & Garth Hudson	Live at Levon Helm's/Soundcloud.com	2011
Mississippi Flood Blues	Joe Pullum	Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 1: 1934-1935 (1995)	1935
Mississippi Flood of 1927, The	David Kleiner Trio	Live at the Barrington	2011
Mississippi Flood, The	Jon Langford & Kelly Hogan	Folk Songs Of Illinois Volume #1 (2007)	1927
Mississippi Flood, The*	Vernon Dalhart	Edison Blue Amberol: 5395	1927
Mississippi Flows, The	Daryle Stephen Ackerman	Attention to Detail	2006
Mississippi Flyer	Larry Fontine and His Orchestra	Decca recording #24603	1949
Mississippi Flyway	Blue Canvas Orchestra	Wild Woods & Waters	2010
Mississippi Gambler	Rusty Hicks Band, The	Rusty Hicks Band (Bunch of Hicks)	2006
Mississippi Gambler1*	Danny Dill	Folk Songs of the Wild West (2011)	1949
Mississippi Gambler2*	Herbie Mann	Mississippi Gambler	1972
Mississippi Gene and I	Dreamtime	Best of 2009-2008	2009
Mississippi Heavy Water Blues	Doc & Merle Watson	Sittin' Here Pickin' The Blues	1985
Mississippi Heavy Water Blues*	Barbacue Bob (Robert Hicks)	Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 1: 1927-1928 (1991)	1927
Mississippi Low-Levee Blues	Barbacue Bob (Robert Hicks)	Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 2: 1928-1929 (1991)	1928
Mississippi Lullaby	Shady Mix	Bottomlands	1998
Mississippi Mile	John Oates	Mississippi Mile	2011
Mississippi Minstrels	Len Spencer, Billy Murray, and Harry Macdonough	cylinders.library.ucsb.edu	1905
Mississippi Momma	Adam Klein	Distant Music	2006
Mississippi Moon Dog	Molly Hatchet	Silent Reign of Heroes	1998
Mississippi Moon1	Jerry Garcia	Garcia (Compliments Of…)	1974
Mississippi Moon1*	Seatrain	Marblehead Messanger	1971
Mississippi Moon2*	Greg Brown	One More Goodnight Kiss	1988
Mississippi Moon3*	John Anderson	Country 'til I Die	1994
Mississippi Moon4*	King's X	Ear Candy	1996
Mississippi Moon5*	Sol Fiya	Sundance	2002
Mississippi Moon6*	Too Slim and the Taildraggers	Tales of Sin and Redemption	2003
Mississippi Moon7*	Corty Byron and The Green Onions	Down the Drain	2007
Mississippi Moon8*	Emily Kurn	Things Change	2007
Mississippi Moon9*	Ronnie LeBlanc	An Acoustic Sin: Erase the Sky	2007
Mississippi Moon10*	Lori Lynette Black	Absence of Color	2008
Mississippi Moon11*	Kate Redgate	Nothing Tragic	2009
Mississippi Moon12*	Hapa Hillbillies	I've Never Been to Hawaii	2010
Mississippi Moon13*	Adi Burgess	Golden Cage	2012
Mississippi Mud	Coastline	Sneakin' Out Back	2007
Mississippi Mud Clerk	Cameron Mizell	Tributary	2010
Mississippi Mud Pie	Dandi Wind	Break the Bone	2007
Mississippi Mud/Up A Lazy River1	Hal Linden	It's Never Too Late	2011
Mississippi Mud1	Al Hirt	Swingin' Dixie at Dan's pier 600 in New Orleans, Vol. 1	1958
Mississippi Mud1	Nu Skiffle Brigade	Step Out!	2008
Mississippi Mud1	Marty Grosz	Bix Beiderbecke Era (Complete Concert)	1993
Mississippi Mud1	Ray Charles	Genius Hits the Road	1960
Mississippi Mud1	Paul Whiteman Orchestra with Bix Beiderbecke	At The Jazz Band Ball	1928
Mississippi Mud1*	Rhythm Boys, The (with Bing Crosby)	Immortal (1994)	1927
Mississippi Mud2*	Alive 'N Kickin'	Alive 'N Kickin'	1970
Mississippi Mud3*	Yusef Lateef	The Doctor Is In and Out	1976
Mississippi Mud4*	Edgar Mayer, Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, Jerry Douglas	Bourbon and Rosewater	1996
Mississippi Mud5*	Kudzu Kings	Kudzu Kings	1997
Mississippi Mud6*	Thom Ellis	Ups & Downs	1999
Mississippi Mud7*	Tom Coerver	Backwater Tales	1999
Mississippi Mud8	Hack Mack Jackson	Big Time in Voodooville	2011
Mississippi Mud8*	Hank Williams III	Lovesick, Broke, & Driftin'	2002
Mississippi Mud9*	Hunter Moore	South of St. Louis	2003
Mississippi Mud10*	Dave McGrath	Dave McGrath	2005
Mississippi Mud11*	David Dover	Mississippi Mud	2005
Mississippi Mud12*	Peter Kalla	Southern Charm	2005
Mississippi Mud13*	American Blues Box	American Blues Box	2006
Mississippi Mud14*	Gary Hirstius	Waterline	2006
Mississippi Mud15*	Greg Joseph	American Diary	2006
Mississippi Mud16*	Joel	Upside Down World	2006
Mississippi Mud17*	Dan Peart	Truth Be Told	2008
Mississippi Mud18*	Pawn Shop Lifters, The	Whiskey Lane	2008
Mississippi Mud19*	Ivey Clayhause	Quickstar Productions Presents Goin' Back Home, Volume 13	2009
Mississippi Mud20*	Steve Brown and the Bailers	How Things Start	2009
Mississippi Mud21*	Burnsville Band	Give Me a Job	2010
Mississippi Mud22*	112 North Duck	Flat River Blues	2011
Mississippi Mud23*	Bailey and the Rotating Cast of Thousands	Black Dog Syndrome	2011
Mississippi Mud24*	Lanny McGough	City of the Dead	2011
Mississippi Mud25*	Tim Heintz, Bill Mize, Grant Geissman, Beth Bramhall, Charlie Bisharat, Martha Jacobs	American Rivers	2011
Mississippi Mud26*	Highway Bandits	Stick to Your Guns	2012
Mississippi Mud27*	Shemekia Copeland	33 1/3	2012
Mississippi Muddy Water	Marla Muldaur	Meet Me at Midnite	1994
Mississippi Number One	Eden Brent	Mississippi Number One	2008
Mississippi Palisades	BriarPickers, The	Mrs. Maxwell	2012
Mississippi Queen1	Ozzy Osbourne	Prince of Darkness	2005
Mississippi Queen1	Sons of Otis	Temple Ball	1999
Mississippi Queen1*	Mountain	Climbing!	1970
Mississippi Queen2*	Boone Creek	One Way Track	1978
Mississippi Rag	Claude Bolling	Original Ragtime	1966
Mississippi Rain	Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	Uncle Charlie & His Dog Teddy	1970
Mississippi Ripples	International Novelty Orchestra		1923
Mississippi River 1	TharealOMF	Soundcloud.com	2013
Mississippi River #16	Tihomir Pitkov	Blue Album, The	2012
Mississippi River (100 Bars Freestyle)	Young Vegas	J.A.C.K.P.O.T	2012
Mississippi River (Home Sweet Home)	Al Harris	Songs from the Land Between Two Rivers	2009
Mississippi River (In My Eyes)	H. Lynn Kitchens	Album of the Year	2013
Mississippi River Blues1*	Ida Cox	Ida Cox Vol. 2 1924-1925 (1995)	1925
Mississippi River Blues2	Leon Redbone	Double Time	1977
Mississippi River Blues2*	Jimmie Rodgers	Recordings 1927 - 1933 Disc B (2002)	1929
Mississippi River Blues3	Last Chance Jug Band	Shake That Thing!	1997
Mississippi River Blues3*	Big Bill Broonzy	The Young Big Bill Broonzy (1928-1935) [1991]	1934
Mississippi River Blues4*	George "Harmonica" Smith	No Time to Jive	1970
Mississippi River Blues5*	Dwight Kennedy	Wonderful World	1996
Mississippi River Blues6*	Tav Falco	Disappearing Angels	1996
Mississippi River Blues7*	Travelin' Soul	In Our Lives	2012
Mississippi River Blues8*	Rambling Steve Gardner	Hestitation Blues	2013
Mississippi River Boat	Billy Smith Band	Mississippi River Boat	2005
Mississippi River Boy	Andy Bailey Band, The	Begin Again Lounge	2001
Mississippi River Bridge	Greg Di Leo	Hurrikenesis	2012
Mississippi River Bridge	Cornelius18	Soundcloud.com	2011
Mississippi River Chant	Young and Yata	Snow Has Fallen	2008
Mississippi River Dance	George McAnthony	The Vision	2000
Mississippi River Delta	Buben	Gentil Bibeliot	2011
Mississippi River Dream	J. Blackwell	Like A Place I Haven't Seen	2005
Mississippi River Empties Into the Gulf	Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra	'03: This New Immense Unbounded World	2002
Mississippi River Factory Town	Cath Carroll	True Crime Motel	1995
Mississippi River Fool	Johnny Anderson	The Closet Takes	2010
Mississippi River Gambler	Dinner Belles	West Simcoe County	2011
Mississippi River Girl	Josh Kelley	Just Say the Word	2006
Mississippi River Grace	Shon Rand		2008
Mississippi River Hag (Scratch)	Slow-Fi	Soundcloud.com	2010
Mississippi River Heartache Blues	Rollingwood	Reverbnation.com
Mississippi River Let The Water Flow	MaQuez Daniels	Soundcloud.com	2013
Mississippi River Let You Water Flow	Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver	More Behind the Picture than the Wall	2007
Mississippi River Long	Carnival Music	Soundcloud.com	2013
Mississippi River Long Deep & Wide	Elisabeth Rhymer	Soundcloud.com	2013
Mississippi River Lullaby	Patrick Bloom	Moses	2008
Mississippi River Man	Robyn Smiley	Down in Louisiana	2007
Mississippi River Medley	Cathy Barton & Dave Para	Living On The River	2000
Mississippi River Mud	Doctor G	Mudcat	2005
Mississippi River Mud A	Gooding	Little America	2006
Mississippi River Mud B	Gooding	Little America	2006
Mississippi River Mud C	Gooding	Little America	2006
Mississippi River Payday	Porch Ghouls	Bluff City Ruckus	2003
Mississippi River Piano Man	Dave Schonfelder	Fire's Out	2010
Mississippi River Pig	Shawn Pike	Mightypikefish & The Universe	2010
Mississippi River Queen	Pistol Whipping Party Penguins, The	Leave Me Blue	2010
Mississippi River Queen1*	David Allan Coe	Human Emotions	1978
Mississippi River Queen2*	David John and the Comstock Cowboys	Break it to the Cowboy	2011
Mississippi River Raft	J.D. Crowe & the New South	Lefty's Old Guitar	2006
Mississippi River Rat	Eddie Wicker	Drinkin' and Thinkin'	2016
Mississippi River Rat	Zydeco Crawdaddys	Saint Louie Mardi Gras	2001
Mississippi River Ride	David Cullen	Guitar Travels	2008
Mississippi River Rising	Middle Ages, The	Soundcloud.com	2012
Mississippi River Run Dry	Blackwater Jamboree	Watch EP	2013
Mississippi River Runnin' Backwards	Tom Russell	Blood and Candle Smoke	2009
Mississippi River Shuffle	Terry Fell	Mississippi River Shuffle (2011)	1955
Mississippi River Song	Pamela McNeill	Nightingale	2007
Mississippi River Song	Gene Lafond	The Wild Unknown	1983
Mississippi River Song	Jesse Barish	Selling Fire in July	2013
Mississippi River Song - Tapioca	Cantrell and Williams	Those Ragtime Years: 1899-1916, Volume 1 (2008)	1902
Mississippi River Stomp	Kerry Kearney Band	Ghosts of the Psychedelta	2005
Mississippi River Town Blues	We Shave	Iowa City Song Project	2012
Mississippi River Waltz	Memphis Jug Band	Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 2 (1928-1929) [1990]	1928
Mississippi River Water	Sunbelly, The		2013
Mississippi River Waves	Youth Guitar Ensemble of Bad Nauheim	Soundcloud.com	2011
Mississippi River Whistle Town	James Talley	Blackjack Choir	1977
mississippi river's so fat	subiraudio	Soundcloud.com	2012
Mississippi River, Louisiana Woman	Jimmy C. Newman	Wild 'N Cajun	1984
Mississippi River1*	Bull City Red	Blind Boy Fuller, Vol. 2, CD B	1935
Mississippi River2*	Leadbelly	Private Pary November 21, 1948	1948
Mississippi River3*	Paul Davis	A Little Bit of Paul Davis	1971
Mississippi River4*	Tony Joe White	Live in Europe 1971	1971
Mississippi River5*	Janis Joplin	Janis [Original Soundtrack]	1975
Mississippi River6*	Smoky Babe	Louisiana Country Blues	1981
Mississippi River7	Chrisfader & Testa	Overland	2010
Mississippi River7*	J.J. Cale	Grasshopper	1982
Mississippi River8*	Johnny G. Lyon & JGLB		1985
Mississippi River9*	Kyouzou Nishioka & Karibu No Arashi	77.9.9 Kyoto (Taku Taku)	1989
Mississippi River10*	Wu Tianqiu	World Famous Songs No. 3	1996
Mississippi River11*	Havalina Rail Co.	America	1999
Mississippi River12*	Ukulele Man	SumoNinjaLele	2000
Mississippi River13*	Wadada Leo Smith and N'da Kulture/Thomas Mapfumo and the Blacks	Dreams and Secrets	2001
Mississippi River14*	David Banner	Murder Dog Celebrates 10 Years: Best of the Best	2004
Mississippi River15*	Star Barefoot Walker	Touched by the King CD1	2004
Mississippi River16*	Brock Zeman	Cold Winter Comes Back	2005
Mississippi River17*	Carl Schroeder	Piano Music by Carl Schroeder	2006
Mississippi River18*	Mark Roberts	Giving the World Away	2006
Mississippi River19*	Ty Billings	You Can Take the Boy Out of the Country	2006
Mississippi River20*	Drive If You Must	Drive If You Must	2007
Mississippi River21*	Salisbury	Salisbury	2007
Mississippi River22*	Atomic Missiles, The	Anthology	2008
Mississippi River23*	Brandon Jenkins	Faded	2008
Mississippi River24*	Brett Ryan	St. Cecelia Soul	2008
Mississippi River25*	Fab Elliot	Delta Dreams	2008
Mississippi River26*	Terry Campbell	Long Way Home	2008
Mississippi River27*	Trampled Under Foot	May I Be Excused	2008
Mississippi River28*	David Woeller and Peter Tracy	Forrest Dreams	2009
Mississippi River29*	Firehead Jerry	B-Sides	2009
Mississippi River30*	King Giant	Southern Darkness	2009
Mississippi River31*	Mike Roberts	Rain, Trains and Angels	2009
Mississippi River32*	Minnie Murphy		2009
Mississippi River33*	Northwest Man, The	Play/Pause	2009
Mississippi River34*	Reverand Tex DeVille	Reverbnation.com	2009
Mississippi River35*	Antioquia	My Piano Ate the Front Page of the San Francisco Chronicle	2010
Mississippi River36*	Dwellers, The	Moon of the Falling Cherries	2010
Mississippi River37*	Paul Tarle	Mississippi River	2010
Mississippi River38*	Andrew Foshee		2011
Mississippi River39*	Oscar Lush	Greater Plans	2011
Mississippi River40*	Patrick Larkin's Summer Zonk	ear wax winter	2011
Mississippi River41*	Seth Edward	Acoustic Blues Plus	2011
Mississippi River42*	Bill Watkins	Soundcloud.com	2012
Mississippi River43*	Belize Jazz Ensemble	Last Days	2012
Mississippi River44*	Eric Steckel	Dismantle the Sun	2012
Mississippi River45*	Ethan Constant	Reverbnation.com	2012
Mississippi River46*	Half Dave Half Matt Half Music	Songs for the Marbles	2012
Mississippi River47*	Lawsuits, The	Hot Love	2012
Mississippi River48*	Rich Smith	Universal	2012
Mississippi River49*	Hepdog	Soundcloud.com	2013
Mississippi River50*	Josh Jenkins Music	Talking 'Bout Girls	2013
Mississippi River51*	Lines	Live at Genk on Stage	2013
Mississippi River52*	Michele Borriello	Go Bah - EP	2013
Mississippi River53*	Nick Laseter	Reverbnation.com	2013
Mississippi River54*	Paul Spring	Home of Song	2013
Mississippi River55*	Sale Prova	Southern Rock	2013
Mississippi River56*	Archie Suicide	Reverbnation.com
Mississippi River57*	Dave Adair and the Adair Brothers	Reverbnation.com
Mississippi River58*	Hans Posegga	Lobby Stories (2011)
Mississippi River59*	Nigg Joe	Reverbnation.com
Mississippi River60*	Yahkhahnahn Gibson	Reverbnation.com
Mississippi Riverbank	Nebula John	Mississippi Riverbank	2012
Mississippi Riverbanks	Dom Wier	Winter of This Content	2011
Mississippi Riverboat Baby	Keith Rea		2012
Mississippi Riverboat Queen	Little Memphis	Let Me Down Easy	2008
Mississippi Riverboat Song	Super XX Man & Eric Metronome	Home Split	1996
Mississippi Riverslide Blues	Red Label		2010
Mississippi Roll	Jack Klatt & The Cat Swingers	Mississippi Roll	2012
Mississippi Roll On	Mel McDaniel	Let It Roll	1985
Mississippi Rolling Stone	Ike & Tina Turner	Nutbush City Limits	1973
Mississippi Sand	Johnny Cash	International Superstar	1971
Mississippi Sandman	Modern Mountaineers	Bluebird recording #B-6997	1937
Mississippi Sawyer	Ralph Stanley	Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys, 1971-1973 (1995)	1971
Mississippi Sawyer	John W.Dillon	Library of Congress: Gordon cyl. A48, Item NC78	1925
Mississippi Serenade	Greg Brown	The Iowa Waltz	1984
Mississippi Shine	Willie "Pdub" Moore, Jr., featuring David Banner	Turning Point, The	2011
Mississippi Song	Rising Appalachia	Filthy Dirty South	2012
Mississippi Song (Muddy Mississippi)	Pavel Sedláček, Petr Dvořák	Pop Galerie	2006
Mississippi Sounding Calls	Joe Shores	Deep River of Song: Mississippi Saints & Sinners (1999)	1939
Mississippi Steamboat1*	Fenton Robinson	Best of Duke-Peacock Blues (1992)	1958
Mississippi Steamboat2*	Ekoostik Hookah	Dubbabuddah	1994
Mississippi Suite	Ferde Grofé	Grofé: Grand Canyon Suite & Mississippi Suite (1988)	1926
Mississippi Summer	Vicki Price	Mississippi Summer	1998
Mississippi Sunset, Louisiana Moon	Moonlight Rodeo	Mississippi Sunset	2007
Mississippi Swamp March Number 2	Stefan Grossman	My Creole Belle	2012
Mississippi Valley Blues1	Jenks "Tex" Carman	Chippeha!: The Essential Dixie Cowboy (1947-1957) [1998]	1940s
Mississippi Valley Blues1*	Gene Autry and Jimmy Long	Back in the Saddle Again [Sony]	1931
Mississippi Valley Blues2*	Mississippi Valley Riders	Walk On	2010
Mississippi Was Your Name	Black Island Hood	Mississippi Was Your Name	2010
Mississippi Water	Burton Gaar	Home of the Blues	2003
Mississippi Water Blues	Bertha "Chippie" Hill	[Unreleased]	1927
Mississippi Waters	Sharon Day with Lee Taylor		2013
Mississippi Way	Eddie Meduza	Garagetapeter	2002
Mississippi-River	Arkitector	Soundcloud.com	2013
Mississippi1*	Red Foley (with the Dixie Dons)	The Very Best Of (2009)	1950
Mississippi1*	Kay Starr	Definitive Kay Starr on Capitol (2002)	1950
Mississippi2*	John Phillips	John Phillips (John, the Wolf King of L.A.)	1969
Mississippi3	Vikingarna	Bästa Kramgoa Låtarna	2004
Mississippi3*	Pussycat	Mississippi (1996)	1976
Mississippi4*	Hunter Moore	Departure	1991
Mississippi5*	Ninjaman	Ting a Ling a Ling a School Pickney Sing Ting	1993
Mississippi6*	Paula Cole	This Fire	1996
Mississippi7*	Kerry Kearney Band	Kerry Kearney	1999
Mississippi8*	Chris Rea	Stony Road (2002)	2000
Mississippi9*	Afroman	Good Times, The	2001
Mississippi10*	Train	Drops of Jupiter	2001
Mississippi11*	Richie Arndt & the Bluenatics	Voodoo	2003
Mississippi12*	Firecracker	So Long Someday	2005
Mississippi13*	Steve Adey	All Things Real	2006
Mississippi14*	Ross Shifflett	Shiffy the Kid	2006
Mississippi15*	Petit Fantome	Bordeaux Rock Mag 5	2007
Mississippi16*	Quincy	My Heart is Like a River	2007
Mississippi17*	Original Flares, The	Can You Still Rock	2007
Mississippi18*	Alphonso Sanders	Mississippi Influences	2008
Mississippi19*	David Nail	I'm About to Come Alive	2008
Mississippi20*	Mud Dog	River of My Soul	2008
Mississippi21*	Carlo Little Allstars	Never Stop Rockin'	2009
Mississippi22*	Eva & The Heartmaker	Let's Keep This Up Forever	2009
Mississippi23*	Angie Mattson	Skeleton Arm	2010
Mississippi24*	Benjy Davis Project	Lost Souls Like Us	2010
Mississippi25*	Holley Bendtsen & Amasa Miller with Leigh Harris	Our Songs	2010
Mississippi26*	Sweet Sunny South	Carried Off by a Twister	2010
Mississippi27*	Acid Pauli	Smaul 08	2010
Mississippi28*	Ray Bonneville	Bad Man's Blood	2011
Mississippi29*	Sköni with Garry Tallent	Rhythm Flow, The	2011
Mississippi30*	Wheeler Brothers	Portraits	2011
Mississippi31*	Griswolds, The	Mississippi	2012
Mississippi32*	Mac Powell	Mac Powell	2012
Mississippi33*	Black Panties	Do Not Listen to this Unless You're from the Future	2014
Mister and Mississippi	Patti Page	Golden Hits (1960)	1951
Mister och Mississippi	Elisabeth Lord	Där på stranden	1969
Moline	Pearl Jam	Concert in Moline, Illinois	2014
Morganza Spillway Blues	Whoozdads?		2011
Mr. & Mrs. Sippy	Okee Dokee Brothers	Can You Canoe? A Mississippi River Adventure Album	2011
Muddy Bottom Blues	Tab Benoit	Wetlands	2002
Muddy Feet (On the Mississippi)	New Colony Six	Sides (2007)	1970
Muddy Mississippi	Tablesalt	Tablesalt	2007
Muddy Mississippi Blues	New Blues Collective, The	The Blues	2011
Muddy Mississippi Line	Bobby Goldsboro	Best of Bobby Goldsboro, Vol. 1 (2005)	1969
Muddy Mississippi River	Wild Bill Emerson	Muddy Mississippi River	2011
Muddy Mississippi1*	Mel Street	George Jones & Mel Street	1980
Muddy Mississippi2*	Reba McEntire	Oklahoma Girl (1994)	1984
Muddy Mississippi3*	Miri Hunter Haruach	Harvest of the Heart	1999
Muddy Mississippi4*	Charlie Daniels	Redneck Fiddlin' Man	2002
Muddy Mississippi5*	Popfilter	Pop This!	2011
Muddy River	Okee Dokee Brothers	Can You Canoe? A Mississippi River Adventure Album	2011
Muddy Stream Blues	Luella Miller	Complete Recorded Works: 1926-1928 (1994)	1928
Muddy Water	Daniel Jenkin	Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Original Broadway Cast Recording)	1985
Muddy Water (A Mississippi Moan)	Bessie Smith	Complete Recordings, Volume 3	1927
Muddy Water in My Blood	Jimmy Phillip	Desperate Moon	2012
Muddy Waters Rose Out of the Mississippi Mud	Willy DeVille	Crow Jane Alley	2004
Mule	Willie Wisely Trio	Soundcloud.com	1987
Must Be My Baby	Guy Clark	Boats to Build	1992
Must Be the Water	Marc Broussard	Must Be the Water (EP)	2008
My Heart Will Always Be in New Orleans	Jon Waterman	Disaster Song Project	2014
My River	Kristin Diable	Kristin Diable & The City	2012
My River Rocks	Steven Marking	My Mighty Mississippi	2013
Myrtle Marie	Hunter Moore	South of St. Louis	2003
Natchez	Trotsky Icepick	Hot Pop Hello	1994
Natchez and the Delta Queen Race	Charlie Ipcar	Never Turn a Blind Eye to the Storm	2015
Natchez Shopping Blues	Olu Dara	From Natchez to New York	1998
Natchez Shopping Blues	Olu Dara	From Natchez to New York	1998
Natchez Whistle	John Hartford	Headin' Down Into the Mystery Below	1978
National River	Charlie Maguire	Great Mississippi	2001
Natural Encounters: Song of Mississippi [whole CD]	Natural Encounters	Natural Encounters: Song of Mississippi	1998
Neath the Mississippi Moon	George Primrose & Boys		1912
New Fallin' Rain Blues, The	Lonnie Johnson	Lonnie Johnson, Vol. 5: 1929-1930 (1991)	1929
New Madrid	Uncle Tupelo	Anodyne	1993
New Mississippi River Blues	York Brothers	Detroit in the 40's and 50's, Vol. 1 (2000)	1949
New Orleans	Gary U.S. Bonds	Greatest Hits of Gary U.S. Bonds	1960
New Orleans is Sinking	Tragically Hip, The	Up to Here	1989
New World Water	Mos Def	Black on Both Sides	1999
Next Train to New Orleans	Spook Handy	Breakfast at Bill's	2001
No Mississippi River	Opium Taylor	Fade Machine Fade Magazine	1999
North Country	American Scarecrows	Yesteryear	2014
Oh Louisiana	Chuck Berry	San Francisco Dues	1971
Oh Mississippi	Lissie	Why You Runnin' (EP)	2010
Ol' Man River1	Beach Boys	Hawthorne, CA (2001)	1968
Ol' Man River1	Ravens, The	Old Man River	1947
Ol' Man River1	Techniques, The	Run Come Celebrate: Their Greatest Reggae Hits	1993
Ol' Man River1	William Warfield	Show Boat (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture)	1951
Ol' Man River1*	Paul Robeson	The Best of Broadway: The American Musical (2004)	1928
Old Dollar Mamie	22	Prison Blues of the South: Live at the MS & LA State Penitentiary (1994)	1947
Old Floating Days	Blue Canvas Orchestra	Wild Woods & Waters	2010
Old Man River	Malaria!	Elation	1993
Old Man River (I've Come to Talk Again)	Mel McDaniel	Naturally Country	1983
Old Man River (I've Come to Talk Again)*	Shylo	Flower of the South	1976
Old Man River2*	Five Points Band	Family	2011
Old Records	Allen Toussaint	Songbook	2013
Old River	Charlie Maguire	Great Mississippi	2001
On the Banks of the Mississippi	In Vain	Mantra	2010
On the Mississippi	Alexander Prince	cylinders.library.ucsb.edu	1908
On the Mississippi	Billy Murray with the American Quartet	cylinders.library.ucsb.edu	1911
On the Mississippi Medley	John Philip Sousa	American Patrol: The Best Of (2010)	1913
On the Mississippi River	EVM	Hello Madhouse! (2012)	1990
On the Mississippi River	Ada Milea featuring Chiriac, Dorina/Banzaru & Radu	Apolodor in English	2011
On the Robert E. Lee	Neil Diamond	Jazz Singer, The	1980
One Mississippi	Marie Dazzler	So Far So Good	2004
Out on the Natchez Trail	Chuck Mead	Journeyman's Wager	2009
Ozawindib	Charlie Maguire	Great Mississippi	2001
Pass the Bowl	Charlie Maguire	Great Mississippi	2001
Picking White Gold Blues	Kurt Adametz	ORF Universum Vol. 16: Ol' Man River - Machtiger Mississippi	2011
Pilgrimmage	Young and Yata	Snow Has Fallen	2008
Pilot Daddy	Charlie Maguire	Great Mississippi	2001
Pirate on the Mississippi	Naked Alien	Naked Alien	2009
Pirates of the Mississippi	William Michael Morgan	Always Country	2006
Proud Mary	Solomon Burke	Proud Mary: The Bell Sessions	1969
Proud Mary	Ike & Tina Turner	Workin' Together	1971
Proud Mary*	Creedence Clearwater Revival	Bayou Country	1969
Queen of Hearts	Romantica	America	2007
Quincy	Quincy	Sunsmoke Riser	2009
Rain Revival	King Benny		2010
Rain Shower	Olu Dara	From Natchez to New York	1998
Real Catfish Blues, The	James "Son" Thomas	James "Son" Thomas	1985
Red River	Guy Clark	Cold Dog Soup	1999
Red River Blues	Frank Evans	Deep River of Song: Mississippi, The Blues Lineage (1999)	1936
Reflections on the Mississippi	Philadelphia Orchestra [not recorded]	Michael Daugherty, Composer	2013
Reflections on the Mississippi for Tuba and Symphonic Band	University of Michigan Symphony Band	Reflections	2015
Rescue Boat Blues	Joe Price	Designated Driver	2000
Reverend Hickman's Hands	Charlie Maguire	Great Mississippi	2001
Rhythm on the River	Bing Crosby with Wingy Manone	Bluebird B-10844-B	1940
Ribbons of Beauty	Big Blue Sky	River's Rising	2001
ridge song	g. s. o'rin	for helena	2012
Rio de Espírito Santo	Kurt Adametz	ORF Universum Vol. 16: Ol' Man River - Machtiger Mississippi	2011
Rising High Water Blues	Blind Lemon Jefferson	Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 2: 1927 (1994)	1927
Rising River Blues	Bumble Bee Slim	Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 7: 1936-1937 (1994)	1937
Rising Tide	Charlie Maguire	Great Mississippi	2001
River	Davina and the Vagabonds	Black Cloud	2011
River Alive	Michael Tomlinson	Calling Me Back to the Wild	1996
River and Me, The	Duke Ellington	1930-1931 (1991)	1931
River Blood	John Wills	MplstoNola	2011
River Boat Song	Mississippi Chris Sharp	Voices in the Wind	2008
River Boat Song	J.J. Cale	JJ Cale Live	2001
River Bottom Blues	Doctor G	Mudcat	2005
River Boy	Willie Nelson	Ultimate Collection (2008)	1929
River Chanty	Duke Special	Huckleberry Finn (EP)	2010
River Girl	Kelley Mickwee	You Used to Live Here	2014
River House	Quincy	My Heart is Like a River	2007
River I Know, The	Big Blue Sky	River's Rising	2001
River in Reverse	Elvis Costello, Allen Toussaint	River in Reverse, The	2006
River in the Rain	Daniel Jenkin	Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Original Broadway Cast Recording)	1985
River Is So Blue, The	Steven Marking	My Mighty Mississippi	2013
River Man	Wingy Manone and His Orchestra	Bluebird B-6483	1936
River of Life	Bobby Whitlock & CoCo Carmel	Esoteric	2012
River of Life	Eddie Allen	The Trempealeau Hotel	1985
River of Tears	Mr. Blink	Throwback	2014
River Project 2, The	Ballet Memphis	The River Project 2	2013
River Project, The	Eve Beglarian	The River Project	2010
River Road	Shady Mix	Bottomlands	1998
River Sing to Me	Butch Thompson with Dean Magraw	A Prairie Home Companion radio show	2014
River Stay 'Way From My Door	Paul Robeson	Top Hits of the 1930s (2008)	1931
River Steals My Folks From Me	Paul Robeson	Big Fella	1935
River Suite, The	Richard Kapp	Philharmonia Virtuosi Of New York (1989)	1937
River's Going Wild, The	Black Island Hood	Mississippi Was Your Name	2010
River's Up Y'all	Old Gray Mule (featuring Mississippi Gabe Carter on this song)	Sound Like Somethin Fell Off the House	2010
River, The	Duke Ellington	The Private Collection: Volume Five, The Suites, New York, 1968 & 1970	1970
Riverboat	Faron Young	Sings the Best of Faron Young	1959
Riverboat Days	Back Porch Majority	Riverboat Days!	1965
Riverboat Fantasy	Country Gentlemen	River Bottom	1989
Riverboat Shuffle	Bix Beiderbecke (with Wolverine Orchestra)	Bix Restored, The Complete Recordings and Alternates, Volume 1 (2000)	1924
Riverman's Daughter	Grahams, The	Riverman's Daughter	2013
Rivers	Frank Turner	England Keep My Bones	2011
Riverside	Jacob Folk	The Riverside	2011
Riverside Blues1*	King Oliver's Jazz Band	Okeh #40034-B	1923
Riverside Blues2*	Alice Moore	St. Louis Women, Volume 2: 1934-1941 (2005)	1934
Riverside Rendezvous	Big Blue Sky	River's Rising	2001
Riversong: An Apology	Whoozdads?		2011
Rivertown	Mr. Blink	Free and Loafing in La Crosse	2009
Rivertown	Charlie Maguire	Great Mississippi	2001
Rock Island	Michael "Hawkeye" Herman		1975
Rocket to Chicago	Michael "Hawkeye" Herman	Blues Alive!	1986
Roll on Delta Queen	Bobby Joe Swilley	Delta Pride	2003
Roll On Mississippi	Charley Pride	Roll On Mississippi	1981
Roll On River	Okee Dokee Brothers	Can You Canoe? A Mississippi River Adventure Album	2011
Roll On, Mississippi, Roll On	Boswell Sisters, The	Boswell Sisters Collection, The (2011)	1931
Roll On, Mississippi, Roll On	Al Bowlly	Romantic Voice (2008)	1931
Roll On, Mississippi, Roll On	Sidney Bechet	High Society	1931
Roll On, Mississippi, Roll On*	George Gramlich	Gus Arnheim: Echoes From the Coconut Grove (2011)	1931
Roll River Journey	Charlie Maguire	Great Mississippi	2001
Roll River Roll	Rick Sutton	Soundcloud.com	2012
Rollin' Stone	Muddy Waters	King of Chicago Blues (2006)	1950
Roustabout Holler	Henry Truvillion	The Land Where the Blues Began by Alan Lomax	1939
Roustabout Holler	Walter Brown	Living Country Blues USA (1982)	1982
Run Mississippi	Rhonda Vincent	Mark Twain: Words and Music	2011
Runner's High	Hold Steady, The	Teeth Dreams	2014
Sac-Au-Lait Fishing	Tab Benoit	Power Of The Pontchartrain	2007
Sailing on the Robert E. Lee	Lowe Stokes	Lowe Stokes, Vol. 1: 1927-1930 (2000)	1930
Sailing on the Robert E. Lee	Ray Noble & His New Mayfair Orchestra	Riverboat Shuffle (1994)	1936
Same Kooks	Hold Steady, The	Boys and Girls in America	2006
Same Ol' Huckleberry Finn	Back Porch Majority	Riverboat Days!	1965
Save the Delta Queen	Carp	Epic	1970
Save the Delta Queen	Johnny Cash	Johnny Cash Show	1970
Scott Levee Blues	Keghouse	[Unreleased]	1928
Set Me Free	Hans Theessink	Journey On	1997
Shack Bully Holler	Henry Truvillion	American Ballads and Folks Songs by John & Alan Lomax	1934
Shanty Boat	Tillers, The	Hand on the Plow	2013
Shanty Boat	Stephen Gerrard	Broken Shells	2014
Shanty Boat Bill	Mickey Clark	Winding Highways	2009
Shanty Boat Blues	Jimmy Murphy	Electricity	1951
Shanty Boat on the Mississippi	Louis Armstrong	A Life in Music, Vol. 6 (2008)	1939
Shantyboatin'	Ellen Epstein, Cindy Kallet, Michael Cicone	Angels in Daring	1988
She Leaves Memphis		Steamboatin' Days (1944) by M. Wheeler
Showboat	Boombox	downriverelectric	2010
Showboat	Reuben Brock	400 Horses	2011
Showboat (The Robert E. Lee)	Gerbert	Things That Go	2012
Showboat Gambler	England Dan and John Ford Coley	Nights are Forever	1976
Skippin in the Mississippi Dew	John Hartford	Mark Twang	1976
Sleeping in a Thousand Star Hotel	Okee Dokee Brothers	Can You Canoe? A Mississippi River Adventure Album	2011
Slidin' Delta2*	Tommy Johnson	Complete Recorded Works: 1928-1929 (1990)	1929
Sliding Delta1*	Mississippi John Hurt	Worried Blues (1964)	1928
Slow Down Mississippi River	JD Edwards Band	Roads & Roads	2011
Sold Down River	Victor Wainwright and the WildRoots	Beale Street to the Bayou	2009
Sold Me Down the River	Bubba Coon	Driving to Hawaii	2012
Song for a Deck Hand's Daughter	James McMurtry	Too Long in the Wasteland	1989
Sounds of the Mounds	Bug Chaser	Bug Chaser LP	2013
South Bound Water	Lonnie Johnson	Lonnie Johnson, Vol. 2: 1926-1927 (1991)	1927
Southern Flood Blues	Big Bill Broonzy	Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 5: 1936-1937 (1992)	1937
Southwest of the Mississippi River	Snake Snakem	Reverbnation.com
Sprague Song, The	Eddie Allen	The Trempealeau Hotel	1985
Spring on the Mississippi-River, New Orleans	Ins_A	Soundcloud.com	2011
St. Louis Blues	Pete Seeger	American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 3	2004
Steamboat	Ralph A	Dixieland Express	2012
Steamboat	Henry Truvillion	Alan Lomax Field Recording	1939
Steamboat	Look Homeward	Hunger and the Ghost, The	2013
Steamboat	Meadows Brothers, The	The Meadows Brothers	2012
Steamboat	Weeks, The	Rumspringa	2009
Steamboat (Keep Rockin')	Carson Robison and Frank Luther	Banner recording #7207	1928
Steamboat Bill	Edward Meeker	archive.org	1911
Steamboat Bill Boogie	Delmore Brothers	Kentucky Mountains (2008)	1951
Steamboat Captain	Mike O'Leary	What's It to Ya?	2010
Steamboat Days	Clarence Williams' Washboard Band	Okeh #8672	1927
Steamboat Leavin' the Wharf at New Orleans	American Quartet	archive.org	1902
Steamboat Lover	Eddie Allen	The Trempealeau Hotel	1985
Steamboat Man Blues	Clara Smith	Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 5: 1927-1929	1928
Steamboat Queen, The	Steppin' In It	Simple Tunes for Troubled Times	2008
Steamboat Song	Blue Water Highway Band	Blue Water Highway Band EP	2013
Steamboat Stomp	Jelly Roll Morton	Birth of the Hot	1926
Steamboat Whistle Waltz	Amishland Stringband, The	Walkin' Home from Gettysburg	2007
Stearns County Dirt	Leon Laudenbach	Takin' Time	2014
Stevie Nix	Hold Steady, The	Separation Sunday	2005
Still Missing You	Doctor G And The Mudcats	Swampy Tonk Blues	2015
Story of the Mighty Mississippi, The	Ernest V. Stoneman	Country Legend (2011)	1927
Stranded, Ragged, and Poor	Switchback	Check On Out	1995
Stuck Between Stations	Hold Steady, The	Boys and Girls in America	2006
Stupid City	Mr. Blink	Free and Loafing in La Crosse	2009
Sue B. Honey	Switchback	Ain't Going Back	1994
Sulle Rive del Mississippi	Pietro Falco & the Trug Band	Reverbnation.com	2012
Sulle Rive del Mississippi	Pietro Falco & the Trug Band	Reverbnation.com	2012
Sultana	Son Volt	American Central Dust	2009
Sultana	Jon Waterman	Disaster Song Project	2014
Summer Sunrise on the Mississippi	Robert Fruewald	Woodwind Music of Robert Fruewalk, Volume 1	2010
Summertime	Mr. Blink	Tune Up	1995
Sun Don't Shine on Willy	Grayson Capps	Rott 'n' Roll	2008
Sunken Lands, The	Rosanne Cash	The River & the Thread	2014
Sunrise on the Mississippi	Hal Holbrook	Best of Hal Holbrook (2002)	1967
Sunrise on the Mississippi	Bruce Cockburn	Dart to the Heart	1994
Sunrise Over Big Muddy	Marley's Ghost	Let De Groove Rise Up	1989
Sunset on Louisianne	Zachary Richard	Snake Bite Love	1992
Surfin' Mississippi	Messy Jiverson	Rivers, Old Growth, and the Wizard's Cloak	2009
Swamp Grass	Doug Kershaw	Swamp Grass	1972
Swampy Tonk Blues	Doctor G And The Mudcats	Swampy Tonk Blues	2015
Sweet Mississippi River	Mississippi Outlaws	Four Aces	2010
Take a Look	Charlie Maguire	Great Mississippi	2001
Take a Ride on a Riverboat	Louisiana's LeRoux	Lousiana's LeRoux	1978
Take Me Back to My Mississippi River Home	John Hartford	Gum Tree Canoe	2001
Take Me Back to the River	Steven Marking	My Mighty Mississippi	2013
Take Me to the River	Al Green	Explores Your Mind	1974
Tear Stained Eye	Son Volt	Trace	1995
Terrible Flood Blues	Big Bill Broonzy	Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 5: 1936-1937 (1992)	1937
Terrible Mississippi Flood, The	Arthur Fields	archive.org	1927
That All You Got?	Annie and Her Band	Treme, Season 3	2012
That Mississippi River	LUVIS	Reverbnation.com
The Mississippi River Georama Show	Matt Schatz and Jack Herrick	Georama	2016
The People of St. Louis	Matt Schatz and Jack Herrick	Georama	2016
Thick Like Mississippi Mud	Buddy Guy	Born to Play Guitar	2015
This City	Steve Earle	Treme: Music From The HBO Original Series, Season 1	2010
This Ol' Riverboat	Back Porch Majority	Riverboat Days!	1965
To Be Free	Fontella Bass	Free	1972
Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn	Freddy Powers	My Great Escape	2004
Tom Sawyer Overture	Radio Sinfonie Orchester Frankfurt	George Antheil: Symphony No. 3 "American" (2004)	1949
Tom Sawyer1*	Kitsch and Camp	Génériques années 80 (2009)	2005
Tom Sawyer2*	Nigel Richards	A Shining Truth	2009
Towboat	Charlie Maguire	Great Mississippi	2001
Trail of Tears	Kurt Adametz	ORF Universum Vol. 16: Ol' Man River - Machtiger Mississippi	2011
Traveling Riverside Blues	Robert Johnson	King of the Delta Blues Singers (1961)	1937
Trempealeau Hotel	Eddie Allen	The Trempealeau Hotel	1985
Trouble Goodby	Joe Price	Requests	1999
Twin Cities	Everything But the Girl	Worldwide	1991
Up on Cripple Creek	The Band	The Band	1969
Upper Mississippi Blues	Don. D. Harvey and the Earthbound Band	Don. D. Harvey and the Earthbound Band	2004
Upper Mississippi Shakedown	Lamont Cranston Band	Shakedown	1981
Vicksburg	Tennessee Boltsmokers	Hydroradio	2006
Vicksburg	Gothic Rangers, The	Omen	2008
Vicksburg	Hoodoo Drugstore	Root Doctor	2003
Vicksburg	Gaslight Street	Idle Speed	2011
Vicksburg 'Round the Bend		Steamboatin' Days (1944) by M. Wheeler
Vicksburg to New Orleans	Honky Suckle	Foul Waters	2011
Victory	Mr. Blink	Free and Loafing in La Crosse	2009
Vieux Carre	Bobby Alexander & the Delta Mudcats	Made in Mississippi	2004
Violent Shiver	Benjamin Booker	Benjamin Booker	2014
Voices along the Mississippi River	Charlene Helen Berry and James D. Taylor, Jr.	Wonders of North America	2010
Voodoo Chile	Jimi Hendrix	Electric Ladyland	1968
Waist Deep in the Big Muddy	Pete Seeger	A Link in the Chain (1996)	1967
Waiting Down by the Mississippi Shore	Henry Burr, Albert Campbell	cylinders.library.ucsb.edu	1911
Waiting for the Robert E. Lee	Billy Murray with the Heidelberg Quintette	archive.org	1912
Washington Bridge	Trip Shakespeare	Applehead Man	2005
Watching the River Flow	Leon Russell	All Blues'd Up: Songs of Bob Dylan	1999
Watching the River Flow*	Bob Dylan	Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 (1995)	1971
Water Bound Blues	Alice Pearson	Too Late, Too Late, Vol. 7: 1927-1935 (2005)	1927
Water Keeps Rising	Kristin Diable	Kristin Diable & The City	2012
Water Song, The	Dorene Day, Waubanewquay, Marten Clan		2012
Way Down Yonder on the Mississippi	Billy Smith Band	Mississippi River Boat	2005
Were You There?	Back Porch Majority	Riverboat Days!	1965
When Cotton Wuz King	Lanny McGough	Rebel Soul	2011
When It's Darkness on the Delta*	Mildred Bailey		1932
When It's Sleepy Time Down South	Louis Armstrong	Armstrong Comes Alive (2012)	1931
When It's Sleepy Time Down South	Paul Robeson	Ol Man River, The Ultimate Collection (2011)	1931
When the Banks of the Mississippi Run Dry	Robert Farrell	When the Banks of the Mississippi Run Dry	1997
When the Levee Breaks	Led Zeppelin	Led Zeppelin IV	1971
When the Levee Breaks	Yat-Kha	Re-covers	2006
When the Levee Breaks*	Kansas Joe and Memphis Minnie	Complete Recorded Works (1929-1930) [2000]	1929
When the Mighty Mississippi Sleeps	Dr. Michael White	Dancing in the Sky	2004
When You Drop Off at Cairo, Illinois	Billy Murray	Victor Recording 18102	1916
Where Does an Old Time River Man Go	John Hartford	Down on the River	1989
Where the Lazy Mississippi Flows	Elsie Baker and Olive Kline	archive.org	1921
Where the Lazy River Goes By	Barbara Stanwyck & Tony Martin	Banjo on My Knee (film)	1936
Where the Mississippi Flows	Joseph Natus		1901
Where Were You When the Archeta River Went Down?	Roosevelt Charles		1959
Who Needs People	Matt Schatz and Jack Herrick	Georama	2016
Wild Water Blues	Kokomo Arnold	Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 3: 1936-1937 (1994)	1937
Will There Be Any Mississippi Rivers in Heaven	Jim McGlasson/Hazel McGlasson	reverbnation.com	1980
Wondering Pike	Kurt Adametz	ORF Universum Vol. 16: Ol' Man River - Machtiger Mississippi	2011
Wreck of the Sultana, The	Cory Branan	Ardent Presents: Cory Branan	2009
You Sold Me Down the River	Bobby Whitlock	My Time	2009
Your Little Hoodrat Friend	Hold Steady, The	Separation Sunday	2005
Your Southern Heart	Rosanne Cash	The River & the Thread	2014
Island, The	Jon and Lisa	Uncharted Currents	2008
Uncharted Currents	Jon and Lisa	Uncharted Currents	2022

By Dean Klinkenberg|2024-05-30T14:25:22-05:00September 26th, 2011|Songs|22 Comments

About the Author: Dean Klinkenberg

Dean Klinkenberg, the Mississippi Valley Traveler, is on a mission to explore the rich history, diverse cultures, and varied ecosystems of the Mississippi River Valley, from the Headwaters in northern Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico. He is the author of the Frank Dodge mysteries and several guidebooks for the Mississippi River.

22 Comments

Dean Klinkenberg June 17, 2020 at 11:35 am

Hi, Samuel. Thanks for the question. About what time period are we talking here? I know that Charlie Maguire wrote a song about Mary Gibbs, but that was from 2002, I think, and a CD called Great Mississippi that was released in 2001. I suspect you’re thinking of something entirely different, though?
Samuel June 16, 2020 at 10:14 am

Hello! I grew up going to the Mississippi Headwaters in Lake Itasca. And once in my childhood, I got hold of a cassette of a woman folk singer who sung all about the Mississippi. Telling stories of the waters history and such. One of her songs talks about “Mary Gibbs let the Mississippi go”. I haven’t a clue what the song was, or the singer, or the album on cassette. But i do remember the catchy tunes, and the impactful stories of the headwaters of the Mississippi. Any of this ring a bell?
Dean Klinkenberg February 28, 2017 at 6:59 pm

I sure do. The song is called Mister and Mississippi; check out the version by Patti Page from 1951: https://youtu.be/XE2HWNHCRlI
Irene February 28, 2017 at 6:51 pm

I am looking for the lyrics to a song my mother sang called “Mr. and Mississippi” It goes……..

I don’t remember mama, I never knew my dad.
Mr. and Mississippi was all I ever had.
Oh I was born to wander and I was born to roam,
Mr. and Mississippi made me feel at home.

Do you know it?
Dean Klinkenberg February 21, 2017 at 12:58 pm

Thanks!
L. Kilzer February 21, 2017 at 12:22 pm

Roll Muddy River by the Osborne Brothers, and by the Wilburn Brothers. Doesn’t name the Mississippi River specifically, but infers it by names of towns on the Mississippi.
Dean Klinkenberg July 27, 2015 at 5:35 pm

Well this is quite a challenge. There’s a song called “Dusky Stevedore” that was written by Andy Razaf & JC Johnson and recorded many times. I think Mary Dixon recorded the 1st version in 1928 (see here: https://youtu.be/rv9zXXKyOD4); Louis Armstrong also recorded a version. “Rastus” is a term for African Americans that was never considered polite. I wonder if the song you are thinking of was an earlier version of Dusky Stevedore that Razaf & Johnson cleaned up a bit? That’s the best I have right now. Let me know if that gets you any closer.
Loren P Meissner July 27, 2015 at 1:36 pm

I will try to add some musical score information to my request about “‘Rastus was a dusky stevedore” and his banjo. I hope this makes sense. I pecked it out on my piano in the key of C.
Merging the lyrics’ syllables into quarter notes, here are the notes. They are all in the octave above Middle C except the one I am calling “X” which is the G below Middle C. A dash ( – ) means to hold the previous quarter note for another quarter. I’m trying to fit it into 4/4 time the way it sounds, writing a slash / to separate the measures, and in the lyrics a comma separates the quarter notes.
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C C C C / D D X – (“‘Rastus, was a, dus,ky/ stev,e,dore, -“)
D D D D / E E X – (“On, the, old, Missi/ssip,pi, shore, -“)
G G G G / A A F – (“Didn’t, own a, thing, but the/ clothes, he, wore, -“)
E E D D / C – – – (“And, an, old ban/jo, -, -, -“)
Loren P Meissner July 26, 2015 at 9:58 pm

Growing up in the 1930s, I heard a Mississippi River song – the first verse goes like this (as I recall):
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** ‘Rastus was a dusky stevedore; On the old Mississippi shore; Didn’t own a thing but the clothes he wore; and an old banjo.
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And a later (maybe final) verse is sung from the point of view of ‘Rastus:
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** Let me watch the river rolling by; Till the day when I have to die; Then I’ll go to heaven up on high; with my old banjo.
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If there are other verses, each one ends with “old banjo.”
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DOES ANYBODY REMEMBER THIS SONG?
Steven Marking April 25, 2015 at 10:43 pm

Dean, This is a great list and will provide a guide for me for hours of research.
I wish I could find a recording of Florence Price A Mississippi River Symphony from 1934.
I do a show called Our Mighty Mississippi and I wrote 3 songs for the show, Take Me Back To the River https://youtu.be/a4VGCE63dyM, Gone Fishin’ https://youtu.be/vOy0M9nMA8o and My River Rocks https://youtu.be/t9oQenT2pwY?list=UUbPGNiTEfmuP3Gn67SbPBOg all on Youtube and all available at cdbaby, itunes, etc.
Jamie April 9, 2015 at 2:09 am

I was born in 1983 and my mother used to sing it to me when I was little. I remember it had something to do with a woman waiting for her lover to come home. It was a woman who sang the song. I’ll have to ask mom if she knows anymore of the lyrics.
Dean Klinkenberg April 8, 2015 at 4:59 pm

Well, I think you’ve stumped me with that one. I’ve done some searching but with no luck so far. Any idea how old the song might be? Maybe a guess about the musician’s name? I’ll keep poking around and let you know if I come up with anything.
Jamie April 7, 2015 at 12:49 am

I am looking for a song. The chorus goes something like this….he holds the river in his hands, he knows the river well. He keeps the river by his side, he sees the river swell. River rolling river blues. ….. Any ideas?
Dean Klinkenberg December 16, 2014 at 6:02 pm

Hi, Linda. I think the song you are referring to is called “Mississippi.” It was written by Billy Simmons and Curly Williams. The first recordings I know of are from 1950, with versions that year by Kay Starr, Red Foley, and Ella Fitzgerald. Look the song up and let me know if that’s what you were thinking of!

Dean
Linda lee December 15, 2014 at 11:12 pm

Hi. My Dad used to sing me a song about the Mississippi River. I even think I remember that it was in a song book that he had. Probably from around the 1920 to 40’s.
Main lyrics are. ___ ____ the M-I crooked letter crooked letter i, crooked letter crooked crooked letter i. Humpback humpback i Mississippi (something about) rolling down the New Orleans.
Anyone remember that or did my Dad write it? I don’t know.
Thanks for all of the work you do.
Linda Lee
Still is Still Movin’ to Me – Series Episode 4 | 1 Mississippi August 20, 2014 at 1:11 pm

[…] It is also a common thread that people sing on the River, about the River and next to the River and often they are singing the blues. Music out in the wild, filling the space between coyote howls and water rippling, is magical. That must be why there are so many great River songs: “Take me to the River”, “Black Water” and “Proud Mary” just to name a few. (For more songs about the River, check out the Mississippi River Travelers list here.) […]
Dean Klinkenberg March 4, 2014 at 10:08 am

Thanks for the heads up, Jack. I know the song but obviously need to listen to it again! Sounds like it will work.
Jack Ratterman March 3, 2014 at 9:47 pm

Hey I lived in the Delta when I was going to college at DSU and one of my favorite songs about
the Delta was CROSSROADS by Cream ….. ” And I’m going down to Rosedle… You can still barrel house,baby,on the riverside.” Rosedale is on the Mississippi River and a great little
town, the first one I ever tough, school in. It had just one stop light back in 1974. Can you list that song too? Jack
Hazel McGlasson December 18, 2013 at 9:05 pm

Thank you so much for including my late husband, Jim McGlasson’s, song, “Will There be any Mississippi Rivers up in Heaven”
I spend my time keeping Jim’s music alive..thank you
Hazel McGlasson
Dean Klinkenberg April 4, 2013 at 8:16 pm

Thanks! I found the song; love it! It will go on the list.

Dean
Lanny McGough April 4, 2013 at 4:25 am

Here is a great river song titled “the Ella B” by The Amazing Rhythm Aces.” The 1975 LP is titled “Stacked Deck.” Billy Earhart (keyboards), also plays in Hank Jrs Bama Band. The opening line, “Have you ever took a boat ride down the Mississippi.” If memory serves me, I think this was cut at AIR studios in Memphis and was their first LP. L McGough
Lanny McGough March 22, 2013 at 12:03 pm

Thank you sir for including my song “Mississippi Mud” in your list of Mississippi River Songs. I am honoured. I am a natve of la belle Louisiane. From Monroe. Married to a Mississippi gal. I have a song titled “When Cotton Wuz King” from my “Honeys, Harleys, Crawfish & Beer” cd that is about the civi war, the river and the paddle wheelers. It is somewhat historical. It would fit well with your compilation I think. These songs were recorded in Louisiana so that they would have the smell, taste, feel and essence of the lower Mississippi region. I am on a cellphone at the moment so please forgive me for the form. Encore, merci bien Dean Lanny McGough

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