Music about or inspired by the Mississippi River
JD Edwards Band We're looking north today for the Song of the Day, all the way to Winnipeg's JD Edwards Band. This song has something of an unusual back story as I understand it. The band was touring in the US when JD needed an emergency appendectomy while in Memphis, which gave him
I didn't intend for this month to feature musicians who wrote a collection of songs inspired by a trip along the river but that's what I ended up doing. This week we turn to Jacob Folk who traveled along North America's great rivers in the summer of 2011, exploring the world around and within him.
Last week I featured a song from Rosanne Cash's new CD, The River & The Thread; much of the music was inspired by a trip she took back to the South to explore her family roots. She's far from the only musician to be inspired to write songs by travelling along the Mississippi River. In
Rosanne Cash has a fine new CD out--The River and the Thread--inspired in large part by a trip back to the family homeland in the Mississippi Delta. This song in particular, The Sunken Lands, speaks to life along the Mississippi River, focusing on the area around Dyess, Arkansas where the Cash family established itself during
Rum Drum Ramblers We're going to end the February celebration of St. Louis' 250th birthday with one last post featuring another St. Louis band, and another at the crossroads of musical styles. The guys who make up the Rum Drum Ramblers were, like many teenagers, fans of the punk scene. Unlike many of
Bug Chaser Happy birthday, St. Louis! (Well, maybe it was yesterday, or perhaps it's next month; there's a bit of confusion about the actual date that Pierre Laclede set about building his new city.) At the Song of the Day Department, we've been celebrating all month by featuring St. Louis musicians, most of
