Comments on: Memphis & Mississippi songs

Question: Memphis & Mississippi songs

cainiarb — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:22:13 -0800

I'm trying to put together a playlist of songs with the words Memphis or Mississippi in them.

Here are the ones I have so far. Can you help me add to my list. The ones in the titles are easy. I tend to forget the ones where the words are embedded in the lyrics rather than the title.

Can't Stop The Mississippi - Charley Pride
Dixie Chicken - Little Feat
Dixie On My Mind - The Charlie Daniels Band
Don't Mention Memphis - Tim McGraw
Down In Mississippi (Up To No Good) - Sugarland
Honky Tonk Women - The Rolling Stones
Lonesome Boy From Dixie - The Charlie Daniels Band
Memphis - Lonnie Mack
Mississippi - The Charlie Daniels Band
Mississippi Girl - Faith Hill
Mississippi Queen - Mountain
Muddy Mississipi - The Charlie Daniels Band
My Head's In Mississippi - ZZ Top
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - The Band
Night Train To Memphis - Dolly Parton
Ol' Man River - Paul Robeson
Proud Mary - Ike & Tina Turner
Queen Of Memphis - Confederate Railroad
The South's Gonna Do It Again - The Charlie Daniels Band
Tryin' To Live My Life Without You - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band

By: frobozz

frobozz — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:23:47 -0800

Graceland - Paul Simon

By: inconsequentialist

inconsequentialist — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:24:00 -0800

Walking in Memphis - Marc Cohn

By: LobsterMitten

LobsterMitten — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:24:45 -0800

Graceland, Paul Simon
Walking in Memphis

By: LobsterMitten

LobsterMitten — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:24:59 -0800

D'oh.

By: frobozz

frobozz — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:25:15 -0800

also Memphis by Johnny Rivers

By: frobozz

frobozz — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:26:51 -0800

Black Velvet by Alannah Myles (sorry, I keep thinking of more)

By: Pater Aletheias

Pater Aletheias — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:34:48 -0800

Mississippi Squirrel Revival by Ray Stevens
Maybe It Was Memphis by Pam Tillis

By: Pater Aletheias

Pater Aletheias — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:37:19 -0800

Roll On Mississippi by Charley Pride

By: Rain Man

Rain Man — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:38:50 -0800

Mississippi Serenade by Greg Brown

By: Flunkie

Flunkie — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:39:24 -0800

Delia's Gone by Johnny Cash. "I went up to Memphis, and I met Delia there; found her in her parlor, and I tied her to her chair..."

By: tomboko

tomboko — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:39:36 -0800

Eighteen Miles to Memphis, by the Stray Cats.

By: Pater Aletheias

Pater Aletheias — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:42:11 -0800

My Head's in Mississippi by ZZ Top
Mississippi Queen by Mountain
Black Water by the Doobie Brothers
Dani California by the Red Hot Chili Peppers
Mississippi by Afroman

By: Pater Aletheias

Pater Aletheias — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:42:56 -0800

Mississippi Cotton-Picking Delta Town--Charley Pride

By: Pater Aletheias

Pater Aletheias — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:44:41 -0800

Mississippi Blues--Johnny Winter
Mississippi--Pussycat

By: EmilyClimbs

EmilyClimbs — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:44:52 -0800

City of New Orleans ("Nighttime on The City of New Orleans/Changing cars in Memphis, Tennessee...")

By: craichead

craichead — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:46:54 -0800

Mississippi by the Dixie Chicks

By: mudpuppie

mudpuppie — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:47:07 -0800

Memphis in the Meantime (Baby), John Hiatt

By: Pater Aletheias

Pater Aletheias — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:47:26 -0800

Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man--Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn
(yeah, I was raised on country and can't get it out of my head)

By: inconsequentialist

inconsequentialist — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:48:19 -0800

Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) - Kenny Rogers

"Eight miles outta Memphis and I got no spare."

By: Flunkie

Flunkie — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:48:42 -0800

M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I ("used to be so hard to spell, used to make me cry"), apparently by Bert Hanlon, Benny Ryan, and/or Harry Tierney.

I never knew that anything more than half the chorus even existed until I just googled for it.

By: LobsterMitten

LobsterMitten — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:49:24 -0800

Mississippi Mud, Muppets

By: viscountslim

viscountslim — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:49:33 -0800

"Memphis Tennessee": Chuck Berry
"That's How I Got to Memphis": Bobby Bare, Tom T. Hall
"New Orleans": Gary U.S. Bonds, Wilson Pickett, Joan Jett ("Down the Mississippi down in New Orleans")
"Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man": Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn
"Memphis in the Meantime": John Hiatt
"Memphis": Joe Jackson
"Battle of New Orleans": Johnny Horton (references "the mighty Mississip'")
"Here's to the State of Mississippi": Phil Ochs

By: Pater Aletheias

Pater Aletheias — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:50:24 -0800

Memphis, Tennessee--Chuck Berry (remade by Jerry Lee Lewis)

By: Pater Aletheias

Pater Aletheias — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:53:56 -0800

Memphis Soul Song--Uncle Kracker (also mentions Mississippi--2 for the price of 1!)

By: JulianDay

JulianDay — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:01:22 -0800

Music For My Mother by Funkadelic (Man, I was in a place / Called Keeprunnin' Mississippi one time)
Mississippi Goddam by Nina Simone

By: padraigin

padraigin — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:06:51 -0800

Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again, Bob Dylan
Mississippi Mud, Hank Williams III

By: amyms

amyms — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:12:18 -0800

Leo's Lyrics search results for Mississippi.

Leo's Lyrics search results for Memphis.

By: clearly

clearly — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:23:19 -0800

Sublime - Same in the end

By: clearly

clearly — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:26:37 -0800

Jim White - Handcuffed to a fence in Mississippi

By: jacquilynne

jacquilynne — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:32:31 -0800

One very easy way to get the ones with those words in the titles is to go into the iTunes music store and enter Mississippi or Memphis into the power search box for title. That'll return everything they've got with those words in the title, which is thousands of tracks.

By: hifiparasol

hifiparasol — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:35:18 -0800

"Memphis" by Cry Cry Cry.
"Mississippi" by Bob Dylan.

By: JohnnyGunn

JohnnyGunn — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:42:22 -0800

Mississippi Half-Step by the good ol' Grateful Dead.

By: MS_gal

MS_gal — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:46:50 -0800

Mississippi Lady, Jim Croce
Southern girl, Amos Lee
Mississippi, Train
Sweet magnolia blues, Paul Davis
Uneasy rider, Charlie Daniel's Band

By: emelenjr

emelenjr — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:47:25 -0800

I've Been to Memphis - Lyle Lovett
Mississippi Uptown Half-Step Toodleoo - Grateful Dead

By: JohnnyGunn

JohnnyGunn — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:54:51 -0800

Battle of New Orleans by Kingfish.

By: benzo8

benzo8 — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:57:54 -0800

CDDB results for Memphis and Mississippi...

By: Rumple

Rumple — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 23:07:36 -0800

When I come to Memphis - Dave Honeyboy Edwards

Mississippi Swamp Moan -- Alfred Lewis

Mississippi Jailhouse Groan - Rube Lacy

Hong Kong, Mississippi - Bo Diddley

By: Rumple

Rumple — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 23:15:43 -0800

Aberdeen Mississippi Blues -- Bukka White

By: hydrophonic

hydrophonic — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 23:36:23 -0800

Mekons - Memphis Egypt
King Curtis - Memphis Soul Stew
Masked Marvel - Mississippi Boweavil Blues
Fred Neil - Mississippi Train

By: First Post

First Post — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 23:42:40 -0800

"Mississippi" by David Banner on "Mississippi: The Album"

Plus he namechecks the state in practically every tune on that LP as well as its sequel, "MTA2: Baptized in Dirty Water"

Also, "Memphis Hip Shake" by The Cult.

By: robotot

robotot — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 01:42:25 -0800

"Mississippi Goddam" by Nina Simone

By: crocomancer

crocomancer — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 04:09:29 -0800

"Considering a Move to Memphis" - Colorblind James Experience

By: absalom

absalom — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 05:11:53 -0800

PJ Harvey's Memphis is about Jeff Buckley.

Johnny Cash : Going to Memphis

BR 549 : No Train to Memphis

PS: Please, please, please, do not use Walking in Memphis. If you INSIST, I'll send you a cover done by an Irish folk singer I saw in DC. But, please don't.

By: absalom

absalom — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 05:12:21 -0800

Oh, and Memphis Soul Stew is a wonderful song. I'm ashamed I didn't remember that one.

By: ml98tu

ml98tu — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 06:17:55 -0800

Mississippi by Sheryl Crow

By: donajo

donajo — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 06:18:13 -0800

I Learned to Dance in Mississippi -- Southern Culture on the Skids

By: hilby

hilby — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 07:28:20 -0800

Jackson by Lucinda Williams? I'm assuming it's Jackson MS.

By: hilby

hilby — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 07:35:23 -0800

Sorry misread the question. How about Memphis Pearl also by Lucinda Williams?

By: chugg

chugg — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 07:51:53 -0800

'Sean' by the Proclaimers.

By: kidbritish

kidbritish — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:07:53 -0800

Are You Out There? by Dar Williams contains the word "Memphis", but it's not the city, it's the last name of a radio DJ.

"Are you out there, can you hear this?
Jimmy Olson, Johnny Memphis..."
and later
"Calling Olson, Calling Memphis
I am calling, can you hear this?"

By: shannonm

shannonm — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:32:35 -0800

"Heartland" by U2...Mississippi and the cotton wool heat

By: Camofrog

Camofrog — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:41:12 -0800

"All the Way from Memphis" by Ian Hunter/Mott the Hoople ... great rock and roll song

By: SurrenderMonkey

SurrenderMonkey — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:44:11 -0800

"Move to Memphis" - Aha

By: canoehead

canoehead — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:44:56 -0800

Leland Mississippi Blues-Johnny Winter

By: Bigfoot Mandala

Bigfoot Mandala — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:29:36 -0800

Bobbie Gentry's "Mississippi Delta"

By: kirkaracha

kirkaracha — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:31:39 -0800

Lynyrd Skynyrd, "Whiskey Rock-a-Rolla" ("Take me down to Memphis town")
(Part of an Ask MetaFilter trifecta.)

By: CwgrlUp

CwgrlUp — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 14:30:33 -0800

"Wrong Side of Memphis" Trisha Yearwood

By: FlyingMonkey

FlyingMonkey — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 15:30:06 -0800

This is what I've got that hasn't been specifically mentioned already. Some of these might be covers of ones already mentioned, I'm not sure...

Aberdeen Mississippi Blues, Booker T Washington White
Memphis, Rancid
Memphis Flu, Elder Curry
Memphis Tennessee, Al Green
Memphis Tennessee, Waylon Jennings

By: bri5383

bri5383 — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:47:16 -0800

Jackson, Mississippi - Kid Rock
Starkville City Jail - Johnny Cash (although I am not positive he uses "mississippi" in it...its about starkville ms)