When planning our Great River Road trip, I pondered what Mississippi River songs might be out there. To me every good road ...

In song, he and Landis rhapsodized ... Perhaps no style of music is as intertwined with the Mississippi River as the delta blues, rooted in the musical traditions of enslaved Black Americans ...

Today, these are the songs I cue up when I head out on the Great River Road, a national scenic byway that follows the Mississippi almost 3,000 miles from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico.

They endured the Great Mississippi River Flood of 1927, which killed hundreds and displaced almost 640,000 people from Illinois to Louisiana. Many songs were written about this historic disaster ...

Gov. Tony Evers signed a proclamation declaring June 2 National Mississippi River Day in Wisconsin, saying the river helps ...

To John Ruskey, the Mississippi River is “a creative force” that sculpts the landscape and rejuvenates the people who ...

Ben Rector and Blackberry Smoke headline 2025 Mississippi River Festival in Alton ...

Few people see the Mississippi River the way John Ruskey does ... He sings us back home with a song he wrote called “Sky is a River”: The tune feels written for just this moment, as the ...