Music about or inspired by the Mississippi River
It's April, which means the snow is finally melting and the spring rains will be soon be falling and folks along the Mississippi begin to wonder if it's time to start stockpiling sandbags. Mississippi River floods can be as dramatic as they are destructive, which is probably why floods are the most common theme in
The beaver we know today is nothing like the beaver of prehistoric times. Those beasts (Castoroides ohioensis) got as big as 8 feet and 220 pounds, about as big as some black bears today. That's a lot of beaver! So it's not entirely implausible that a giant beaver could eat a modern American city, as
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
Chicago's The New Colony Six reached the national stage in the 1960s with hits such as Love You So Much and Thing's I'd Like to Say. Muddy Feet (On the Mississippi) was originally recorded in 1970, but it sat in storage until released in 2007 on the Sides CD. It's a fun song that frankly
Spring is almost here, and I'm thinking about the return of the passenger boats to the river. This song, Mississippi Dream Boat, is from the 1943 movie Swing Fever (which must be pretty obscure; I can't find it on Netflix). In this version, Sully Mason and Marylyn Maxwell provide the vocals for Kay Kyser and
Mel McDaniel Mel McDaniel may not be a household name, but he had a decent run with a few Top Ten hits on the country charts in the late 1970s and early 1980s. This song, Mississippi (Roll On), was released on his 1985 album called Let It Roll. With no trips to the
