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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...