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.

Nina Simone wrote 'Mississippi Goddam' in response to the bombing on 6th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963, channeling her fury and rage.

As the flood waters rose, many blues artists were inspired to write songs about the disaster and describe the experience of being in a flood. The Mississippi Delta is famous for more than floods ...

Mississippi indie folk band Happy Landing have ... Vocalist Matty Hendley said this about the new song, which is out on ...