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
Willard Robison We're reaching back in time 85 years for today's Song of the Day: Deep River Blues performed by the Willard Robison Orchestra in 1928. Robison, was born 40 miles west of Hannibal in Shelbina, Missouri; he formed a band in the 1920s that he called the Deep River Orchestra and even
Jack Williams Mud month slogs ahead with an epic tune from Jack Williams. Big Muddy, released in 2003 on Walkin' Dreams, tells about the hardships of life along the lower Mississippi, a great piece of songwriting. Listen to it through Spotify at this link. Listen to more songs here.
We're going to finish flood month with a song from New Orleans native Kristin Diable. Released in 2012 on the CD called Kristin Diable & the City, Water Keeps Rising is a soulful, contemporary song about floods that touches on old themes, a tale of the devastation of flooding on the most vulnerable among us.
William Elliott Whitmore We're now in the latter half of April, and the Mississippi is letting us know why so many people have written songs about its tendency to flood. A wet spring has revived the river from a drought-induced coma, rising with an urgency that is quickly taking it beyond nuisance flooding
