Audience member applaud Big Blue Sky during a music cruise Friday, September 13, 2024 on the Mississippi River between Marquette, Iowa and Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. Many of the song written and ...

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

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 ...

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

The Mississippi River’s cultural and historical significance as a transportation route has made it a source of inspiration for many types of music. That music of the river was the focus of ...

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 ...