" Folk singer Judy Collins, who knew the song before she could remember learning it, witnessed Fannie Lou Hamer leading marchers in Mississippi in 1964, singing " Amazing Grace ".

Offered the song by Dylan, Sheryl Crow later recorded an up-tempo cover of " Mississippi " for her The Globe Sessions, released in 1998, before Dylan revisited it for Love and Theft.

He would release " Cold and Empty ", " Jackson, Mississippi " and " I Am " I Am ( Kid Rock song )

British folk / blues artist Wizz Jones recorded a tribute song called " Mississippi John " for his 1977 album Magical Flight.

* Mississippi Queen, 1970 song by Mountain about a Cajun woman visiting from Mississippi

Evangeline Parish was immortalized in the Randy Newman song " Louisiana 1927 ", in which he described the Great Mississippi Flood which covered it with six feet of water.

Referenced in the song " Mississippi " off the CD The Good Times by Afroman.

There are also a few antecedents to folk rock present in pre-British Invasion American rock ' n ' roll, including Elvis Presley's 1954 cover of the Bill Monroe bluegrass standard " Blue Moon of Kentucky "; Buddy Holly's self-penned material, which strongly influenced both Dylan and The Byrds ; Ritchie Valens ' recording of the Mexican folk song " La Bamba "; Lloyd Price's rock ' n ' roll adaptation of the African-American folk song " Stagger Lee " ( which had originally been recorded by Mississippi John Hurt in 1928 ); Jimmie Rodgers ' rock ' n ' roll flavored renditions of traditional folk songs ; and the folk and country-influenced recordings featured on The Everly Brothers ' 1959 album, Songs Our Daddy Taught Us.

When asked about his band, leader John Sebastian said it sounded like a combination of " Mississippi John Hurt and Chuck Berry ," prompting his friend, Fritz Richmond, to suggest the name " Lovin ' Spoonful " from a line in Hurt's song, " Coffee Blues ".

The band's name was inspired by some lines in a song of Mississippi John Hurt called the " Coffee Blues.

The Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman Farm was an important influence on several blues musicians who were imprisoned there, and was referenced in songs such as Bukka White's ' Parchman Farm Blues ' and the folk song ' Midnight Special '.

Their folk song collecting trip to the Southern states lasted from July to November 1959 and resulted in many hours of recordings, featuring performers such as Almeda Riddle, Hobart Smith, Wade Ward, Charlie Higgins and Bessie Jones and culminated in the discovery of Mississippi Fred McDowell.

Casey Jones's fame can almost certainly be attributed to the traditional song, The Ballad of Casey Jones, recorded by Mississippi John Hurt, Pete Seeger, Furry Lewis, The Grateful Dead, and Johnny Cash, among others.

The song is in reaction to the upheaval caused by the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927.

The song focused mainly on when more than 13, 000 residents in and near Greenville, Mississippi evacuated to a nearby, unaffected levee for its shelter at high ground.

In the 1966 John Wayne film El Dorado, most of Poe's poem is recited by the character nicknamed Mississippi and is lyrics in the film's title song .< ref >

Leader of Mississippi steamboat hands singing a song from atop a capstan

Farrar calls the ship " the Titanic of the Mississippi " in the song, which was released on the American Central Dust album.

Southaven, Mississippi born singer / songwriter Cory Branan recorded a song titled " Sultana " about the disaster.

* The song " Mississippi Goddam " was composed and sung by Nina Simone in reaction to the racially-motivated bombings.

Best known for the song " Mississippi Queen ", Mountain is one of many bands to be commonly credited as having influenced the development of heavy metal music in the 1970s.

The Who song " Tommy's Holiday Camp " ( from Tommy ) was credited to Moon, who suggested the action should take place in a holiday camp.

The song was written by Townshend, and although there is a misconception that Moon sings on the track, the version on the album is Townshend's demo.

However Moon did sing the song in live concerts, and in the film version of Tommy.

Moon also produced the song " Baba O ' Riley "' s violin solo ( which he had suggested ), performed by Dave Arbus.

Many rock drummers have cited Moon as an influence, including Neil Peart and Dave Grohl The Jam paid tribute to Moon on the second single from their third album, " Down in the Tube Station at Midnight ", in which the B-side of the single is a cover song from The Who: " So Sad About Us ", and the back cover of the record is a photo of Moon's face ; the Jam's record was released about a month after Moon's death.

During the concert, Moon passed out on his drum kit while the band was playing the song " Won't Get Fooled Again ".

However, Moon passed out for good during the song " Magic Bus " and was again removed from the stage.

In 1976, Moon covered the Beatles ' song " When I'm Sixty-Four " for the soundtrack of the film documentary All This and World War II.

The group never formed, although Page, Beck and Moon did record a song together in 1966, " Beck's Bolero ", in a session that also included bassist-keyboardist John Paul Jones.

*" Marijuana ", a 2010 song by recording artist Kid Cudi off his second album, Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager

Lipscomb performed old songs like " Sugar Babe ," the first song he ever learned, to pop numbers like " Shine On, Harvest Moon " and " It's a Long Way to Tipperary ".

" They also had songs featured in the movies The X-Files film ( Fight the Future ), Batman and Robin, Tommy Boy and Spawn ( a song called " A Plane Scraped Its Belly on a Sooty Yellow Moon ", a collaboration with drum and bass artist Roni Size.

* Cassandra Wilson covered the song " Death Letter " on her 1995 album New Moon Daughter.

The song had evolved through several Los Angeles area groups, and was based on the " Blue Moon " chord changes that were so popular with many doo-wop groups.

In 1988, while recording his album Full Moon Fever, Tom Petty and his lead guitarist Mike Campbell called on the group to provide backing vocals for the song " Waiting for Tonight ".

* American instrumental jazz band Waking Vision Trio recorded a song " In the Full Moon Akasha " on their EP Into High Selva ( 2004 ).

The 1961 doo-wop arrangement of the Rodgers and Hart song " Blue Moon " by The Marcels so incensed Rodgers that he wanted to litigate.

It became the first song broadcast back to Earth from the Moon by the astronauts of Apollo 12.

The album was written and performed by Prince, except for the song " Soft and Wet " which had lyrics co-written by Moon.

The song's meter allows it to be sung to a number of popular tunes including: " Amazing Grace "; " Greensleeves "; " The House of the Rising Sun "; " The Rising of the Moon / Wearing of the Green "; Beethoven's " Ode to Joy " ( in his Ninth Symphony, fourth movement ); " Oh My Darling, Clementine "; " Semper Paratus "; " The Marine Corps Hymn "; " The Yellow Rose of Texas "; " I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing "; " Ghost Riders in the Sky "; " Acres of Clams ", and the theme song from the TV show Gilligan's Island.

* " The Man Who Would be King " is a song by Dio on the album Master of the Moon

* " Full Moon " ( Armand Van Helden song )

** " Full Moon " ( Brandy Norwood song ), the title song