Music about or inspired by the Mississippi River
Doctor G Let's close out mud month with a great tune from Missouri native Doctor G, who penned a poetic tribute to the sticking power of Mississippi mud, to the way it gets on/in you and refuses to let go. You can find Mississippi River Mud on his 2005 CD called Mudcat. Listen to
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.
Still June, still signing about mud. Pete Seeger, one of the most influential musicians in the past half century, wrote Waist Deep in the Big Muddy in 1967, a thinly disguised criticism of the war in Vietnam. He debuted the song on a Smothers Brothers show, but network executives stepped in and had it cut
Lanny McGough It's mud month at the Song of the Day department, so let's continue the theme with some self-described Bayou Noir courtesy of Louisiana-based Lanny McGough. His version of Mississippi Mud is a cautionary tale of getting bogged down or downright lost in that darn mud; it was released in 2011 on
April may have been flood month at the Song of the Day, but the rains are back and the river is rising again. The Mississippi River at St. Louis, already near flood stage, rose 5 feet in the last 24 hours, with another 5-6 foot rise projected in the next 3 days. So rather than
Let's wrap up this month with a song that is pretty much a total mystery to me. I know it's called Mississippi River, and I'm pretty sure it's by Kyouzou Nishioka, maybe with our without Karibu No Arashi, and was probably recorded in 1989 on a CD called 77.9.9 Kyoto (TakuTaku). I'm also pretty darn
