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 ...

They're here to talk about their new album, Mississippi River Songs. Welcome to Minnesota Now, Robert and Timothy. TIMOTHY FRANTZICH: Thanks so much. I appreciate it. So this new album called ...

The River of Song CD set offers a landmark presentation of contemporary musicians who have forged their styles out of the rich musical heritage found along the banks of the Mississippi.

which tells the story of a family of performers aboard a Mississippi riverboat during the 1800s. The most famous song from the show is probably "Ol’ Man River," with lyrics such as: Ol' man ...

a Minneapolis songwriter who released an album of original river songs, "Great Mississippi," in 2002 as a commission from the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area. "I'm kind of excited ...

America's music is a river of song, fed by streams of cultural ... travels the entire length of the Mississippi River to capture the currents of today's music through interviews with musicians ...