Posts that showcase a song about the Mississippi River
Our May focus on songs by musicians from outside the US continues with Mississippi Way, from Sweden's Eddie Meduza (born Errol Leonard Norstedt), a controversial musician who was known for songs with sexually explicit lyrics. This song isn't one of those; released in 2002, the year he died at age 53, on the CD called
It's a new month, so we say good-bye to the flood theme and focus our efforts in May across the ocean to feature songs recorded about the Mississippi River from musicians outside the US. Let's kick things off with the song Mississippi recorded by the Dutch group Pussycat in 1976. The song was a big
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
For the next Song of the Day during Flood Month, we advance to 1937, another year of very high water along the Lower Mississippi. While the human tragedy didn't reach the levels of the flood ten years earlier, flood waters covered an area the size of Lake Superior, with communities along the Ohio River hit
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
