From a classic county song to a classic punk song and back to 1980s pop country--I've been all over the place lately! Reba McEntire recorded this song of regret about the mistakes made by a young woman. You can find a version of Muddy Mississippi on her 1994 CD called Oklahoma Girl. Listen to more
This song has been my obsession for the past week, so I figured it was time to share it and move on to another one. Louisiana Blue isn't exactly about the Mississippi River, but the river gets a shout out near the end. I love the way the fiddle is used in this song, and
Clara Smith Clara Smith was a contemporary of the great Bessie Smith, with a voice nearly as good, too. (Read more about her life here, where you can also download many of her songs.) In Steamboat Man Blues, recorded in 1928, she gets a chance to show just how powerful her voice can
Gifted songwriter and musician JJ Cale died of Friday. If you don't recognize his name, you probably know songs of his, like Cocaine and After Midnight, both made famous by Eric Clapton. Cale grew up in Oklahoma and judging from his body of work, he knew a thing or two about the Mississippi River. In
JD Crowe and the New South Boat month continues with a classic bluegrass tune from a classic bluegrass artist. Mississippi River Raft was released by J.D. Crowe and the New South on their 2006 CD called Lefty's Old Guitar. Listening to this you can almost feel yourself slowly floating down the river with
Robert Johnson is a mythical character in blues history, in large part because so little is really known about him, which leaves plenty of room for invention. In his short career (he probably died in 1938 when he was in his late 20s, poisoned by the husband of a woman he had been having an
